Incident date: 2019-11-05
NAICS industry code: 238390

Two employees were installing a heavy metal cabinet through an opening in the raised floor of a fire truck rear compartment. The injured employee had one hand through another opening in the rear compartment. While both employees were attempting to align the cabinet to a bolt hole, the cabinet pinched the injured employee's fingers, causing a partial amputation of the employee's right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high