Incident date: 2024-03-07
NAICS industry code: 561311

On March 7, 2024, at about 10:00 AM, two employees were moving a drum from the floor to a pallet when the drum slipped and crushed the injured employee's fingertip, resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation. The injured employee was a temporary employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Barrels, drums, cans  nonpressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high