Incident date: 2018-10-16
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was lowering a plow attached to a forklift with a steel cable. The cable failed and the employee's left pinky finger was crushed between the plow and a fork. The finger was amputated below the fingernail at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high