Incident date: 2017-10-03
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was holding the lip of a dock plate open just before it was lowered into position on a shipping container when the employee's left hand became trapped between the lip of the dock plate and the rear floor of the shipping container. His middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high