Incident date: 2018-04-17
NAICS industry code: 454113

An employee received left index, middle, and ring finger amputations above the middle knuckle when his hand was crushed between a dock plate and the forklift frame. The forklift had fallen between the dock plate and the trailer when the truck pulled away from the dock.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high