Incident date: 2017-03-09
NAICS industry code: 115114

The employee was holding the dock plate handles up so that the forklift operator could maneuver the forks into the handles. The employee's left index finger was crushed in the dock plate handle resulting in partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high