Incident date: 2022-09-01
NAICS industry code: 453998

An employee was assisting with unloading boxes from a truck. The employee put a box on the conveyor when she lost her balance and her little finger got caught in the conveyor as she was trying to balance herself, resulting in an amputation between the second and third joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high