Incident date: 2020-04-30
NAICS industry code: 332618

An employee was using a forklift to empty a dumpster into a roll-off container when slack in the lift chain caused the forklift's mast to fall. His left thumb was caught between the mast and the dumpster, resulting in a partial left thumb amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high