Incident date: 2021-09-15
NAICS industry code: 333921

An employee was guiding a powered industrial vehicle into position to lower an elevator machine onto a pedestal for installation. The elevator machine shifted and pinched the employee's fingertip. The fingertip was amputated above the nailbed, without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high