Incident date: 2015-08-18
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was helping a forklift operator load two pallets of solar panels into a flatbed truck. The employee was holding a piece of dunnage and his finger got pinched when the forklift operator pushed the second pallet farther into the box truck. The employee's right ring fingertip and nail were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
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