Incident date: 2015-09-04
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was moving furniture using a box truck with a hydraulic lift gate on the back. As he and a coworker raised the lift gate, he got off the lift and grabbed the side of the rail. The coworker began to operate the lift again, which caught and amputated the employee's thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high