Incident date: 2016-06-14
NAICS industry code: 562112

An employee was servicing a customer's compactor that was inside a large cinder block enclosure with two access gates. As he was closing the left gate, a gust of wind quickly blew the gate closed, pinching his thumb where the gates meet in the middle. He suffered a partial finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate
code_source: title: Gates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high