Incident date: 2024-02-23
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was moving vats of meat into a cooler using a walk behind forklift when their finger became pinched between a metal vat and the forklift handle, resulting in an amputation to a finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high