Incident date: 2016-01-27
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee saw a pallet fall off a forklift into a bin where it did not belong. He left his forklift and went over to the other forklift.  He rode the forks of the forklift to a 6- to 8-foot high elevation and retrieved the pallet. As he was riding the forks down, his right-hand ring fingertip became trapped and was amputated between the mast and the rack of the forklift.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high