Incident date: 2016-08-30
NAICS industry code: 339999

An employee was pulling the release rope on a self dumping hopper. As the hopper was dumping, the hopper slid forward and the safety chain separated causing the hopper to fall off the forks of the lift truck. The employee still grasped the release rope and as the hopper fell his left ring finger was amputated between the fingernail and the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high