Incident date: 2025-07-24
NAICS industry code: 238120

A crew was working at a new warehouse construction jobsite. They were attaching a choker to a hoist. While the rigging was being adjusted, a forklift operator's hand became caught in an unguarded pinch point of the rigging created by the shifting joist, house structure, and/or cable choker. This resulted in the amputation of their left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Parts and materials  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high