Incident date: 2018-03-28
NAICS industry code: 445120

An employee was operating a sit-down forklift in reverse and ran into a trailer. As the forklift struck the trailer, the employee's right hand was crushed between the exterior frame of the forklift and the trailer. The employee sustained crushing injuries to three fingers on his right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate