Incident date: 2023-07-31
NAICS industry code: 326220

An employee was operating a forklift to dump a scrap hopper into a roll-off dumpster. The employee used a pole to unlock the chain to tilt the scrap into the dumpster. The employee went to manually rest the hopper when they suffered a partial amputation of the right index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high