Incident date: 2019-09-24
NAICS industry code: 423320

An employee was moving stone slabs from a forklift to a stacked pile of stone in a yard. The slabs began sliding off the forklift supports, and the employee's fingers were pinched between two of them. The fingertips were torn off, and the fingers were crushed and torn open from the fingernail about halfway down the fingers; no bone was involved.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Stone, marble, granite slabs
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high