Incident date: 2021-07-23
NAICS industry code: 325211

At about 6:00 p.m. on July 23, 2021, an employee was using a forklift to empty a pellet hopper into a roll-off box. The hopper bounced back and the employee's left index finger was pinched between the forklift fork and the hopper's channel iron base. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high