Incident date: 2017-01-05
NAICS industry code: 236220

On January 5, 2017, at approximately 10:20 AM, employees were moving a small safe in order to renovate the floor and wall behind the safe. They attempted to lift the safe one corner at a time to place a shim under each corner. While they were placing a shim under a corner, the safe slipped off the pry bar and caught the injured employee's left-hand index finger, crushing it to the middle knuckle. The finger had to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high