Incident date: 2015-01-16
NAICS industry code: 442110

Employee was part of a two-man team moving furniture from a customer's location. Employees were moving a large sleep sofa to the ground level when the sofa came into contact with a metal stair rail. The injured employee's finger was between the two objects at one point, and when they came together, they severed the employee's finger below the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Sofas
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high