Incident date: 2016-10-06
NAICS industry code: 424810

The employee was stacking pallets of empty barrels with a forklift. One of the barrels was not seated properly. The employee moved the barrel by hand when the forks dropped and his finger was caught between the barrel and the pallet.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate