Incident date: 2016-04-06
NAICS industry code: 337214

An employee was participating in powered industrial vehicle training. As the employee was attempting to pick up a table, the wheels on the lift turned sharply. The lift accelerated quickly, causing it to veer to the right. His right pinky finger was pinned and amputated under an adjacent table next to a wall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high