Incident date: 2024-09-24
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was raising a dock door while standing on a powered industrial truck (PIT). While pushing up on the door with his left hand, he pulled on the control handle of the PIT which caused the PIT to move toward the dock door. The employee's left middle fingertip was caught and amputated between the head rack of the PIT and the bottom panel of the dock door.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high