Incident date: 2016-04-13
NAICS industry code: 314999

An employee was working on a lift truck. While putting the chain back on the lift truck's forks, the employee accidentally knocked it in gear and the boom fell. The forklift chains on the boom amputated the two middle fingers on his right hand. One finger was cut below the nailbed and the other was cut in the middle of the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
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