Incident date: 2017-10-10
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was helping to load a beam onto a truck. He was trying to take a wood block out from under the beam when it fell from the forks of a forklift and caught his right index finger, amputating it between the first and second knuckles.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Building materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high