Incident date: 2024-03-26
NAICS industry code: 713990

An employee was sliding steel planks from a skid that was being elevated by a forklift to a material handling cart. Their right little finger got crushed between the planks and a permanent upright along the side of cart, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high