Incident date: 2019-07-10
NAICS industry code: 491110

On July 10, 2019, an employee pressed the button to raise a dock plate, but the dock plate did not lift all the way on the left side. He went to raise it by hand and it fell, pinching his left hand between the plate and the dock resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high