Incident date: 2019-01-13
NAICS industry code: 114111

An employee was offloading frozen product from a vessel's main freezer onto a conveyor belt system leading to a shoreside warehouse when a box weighing approximately 40 lbs. struck/crushed the employee's left thumb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Water vehicle, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high