Incident date: 2017-01-13
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee operating a forklift lowered the forks while another employee was loading it. The employee's finger was caught between the pallet and floor resulting in amputation of the right middle finger to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c.
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