Incident date: 2020-03-17
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was driving a forklift with a hopper attached to the forks. The hopper was full of metal chips. The employee then parked the forklift, released the hopper's dump mechanism, and dumped the hopper's contents into a large receptacle. As the employee moved the hopper back into the upright position, his left hand was caught at the point where the hopper latches into the upright position and the hopper crushed his left middle finger. The finger was amputated from the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
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