Incident date: 2023-01-31
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was moving bundles of metal channels off the forks of a forklift by hand to put on the dock floor. The banding broke and the employee's fingers were crushed between the floor and the bundle, resulting in a partial amputation of the right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high