Incident date: 2015-08-14
NAICS industry code: 423990

On August 13, 2015, at about 5:30 p.m., an employee was operating a center rider (forklift) to pick up a pallet with his left hand outside of the forklift. He smashed his left-hand little finger against a bollard pole at the warehouse. His fingertip was surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high