Incident date: 2022-03-07
NAICS industry code: 493110

At 8:00 a.m. on March 7, 2022, a warehouse employee was guiding a forklift driver. The forklift lifted up a pallet and set it down again on a stack of pallets to straighten it. It came down on the employee's right hand, causing the amputation of the ring fingertip.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high