Incident date: 2018-03-08
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was on a flatbed truck moving steel dunnage for a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) to unload when the PIV operator came forward unexpectedly and the steel shifted, catching the employee's right ring finger. The finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high