Incident date: 2024-04-30
NAICS industry code: 311991

A temporary employee was pushing a sanitation cart when a powered industrial truck struck the cart and propelled the employee's right hand into a guard rail, crushing their right index finger. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high