Incident date: 2016-12-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

On December 22, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. an employee was manually moving a snow plow blade on a parked forklift and caught his finger under the blade and between a fork on the forklift resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high