Incident date: 2019-10-22
NAICS industry code: 326199

On October 22, 2019, an employee operating a forklift struck a vertical metal aspirator stand. The employee's finger was crushed between the aspirator stand and the forklift side rail, resulting in a surgical amputation to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
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