Incident date: 2019-08-21
NAICS industry code: 333319

The injured employee was directing another employee (fork truck operator) on the placement of a 12' x 8' container onto a flatbed trailer. The employee was pointing to the place on the trailer where the container needed to be in order to secure it for transport. When the injured employee moved his hand, he felt a tug on his right index finger. He observed that the tip of his right index finger had been amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high