Incident date: 2019-09-16
NAICS industry code: 484121

The injured employee was holding a long, metal, hollow pole out of the way inside a truck container while a second employee was operating a forklift to load the container. The forklift mast struck the injured employee's hand pushing his hand into the end of the pole and amputating the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high