Incident date: 2022-11-30
NAICS industry code: 493190

An employee was moving a gaylord into a tipper and adjusting the bar in the tipper that holds the gaylord in place. The employee's right index finger was caught between the hole in the tipper and the tipper bar, resulting in a right index finger amputation.

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