Incident date: 2016-06-03
NAICS industry code: 423120

An employee was driving a forklift to move a pallet when he dropped a water bottle. As he went to catch it, the forklift turned into a bin. His left hand was caught between the bin and the forklift, amputating half of his left index finger.

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: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high