Incident date: 2017-12-29
NAICS industry code: 112340

An employee was changing a forklift cylinder. The employee was gauging the distance from the cylinder to the forklift mast through a hole with his left index finger when he asked a coworker to lower the forklift's mast. As the mast lowered, the employee's finger was caught between the mast and the cylinder, amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high