Incident date: 2015-11-02
NAICS industry code: 424420

The injured employee was having a difficult time closing the latch of a shipping container door. This employee was standing beside the shipping container door by the handle while another employee, who was operating a forklift, pushed the latch of the container's door per the injured employee's command. The fork struck the injured employee's right hand middle finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high