Incident date: 2019-02-04
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was operating a forklift to move reinforcing steel spirals and backed into a parked flatbed trailer. As the employee tried to free the forklift from the trailer his left hand was crushed between the forklift and the trailer. The employee's hand was fractured and lacerated and the employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate