Incident date: 2018-08-03
NAICS industry code: 493110

On August 3, 2018, at approximately 7:30 AM, an employee was helping to unload a railcar. He was attempting to thread a tow strap onto the forks of a forklift when his right pinky finger was caught between the fork and the railcar. He sustained a fracture and partial amputation of the right pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high