Incident date: 2023-05-24
NAICS industry code: 333415

An employee was emptying a small hopper full of cardboard into a compactor. He was undoing a latch that allows the hopper to move forward when his left little finger became caught between the hopper and the mast of the forklift. His left little finger was partially amputated.

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), unspecified
severity: high