Incident date: 2015-07-24
NAICS industry code: 332991

An employee was positioning the lift truck to pick up a tub of parts. He backed into parts tubs behind him and made a rapid forward correction. The quick movement threw him off balance and he fell back. He attempted to steady himself by shifting his left foot, which placed the toe of his foot outside the body of the lift truck. His momentum caused him to pull back on the controls, reversing the lift and causing his left foot to get caught between the lift truck and a tub.  The force crushed the steel toe cap of his safety shoe. He sustained bone and tissue damage to the first four toes of his left foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high