Incident date: 2018-05-10
NAICS industry code: 336330

An employee was pulling a pallet down from a rack with a reach truck. He reached up to adjust a light with his left hand while his right hand was on the joy stick. He unintentionally pulled back on the joy stick and the truck went backward, catching his left hand between the rack and beam behind him. His left pinky finger was amputated.

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