Incident date: 2023-09-19
NAICS industry code: 423610

An employee was changing the forks on a forklift. His right middle fingertip was caught in the forks, resulting in a crush injury that required surgical amputation of 3 millimeters of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high