Incident date: 2021-12-18
NAICS industry code: 333120

An employee was staging a piece of steel plate, raised on the forks of a forklift. The employee was putting a piece of wood under the plate when the plate fell off the forklift's forks and crushed his right foot. He suffered an amputation to the foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: high