Incident date: 2025-06-18
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was placing a support block onto a truck bed to provide support for a unit of material. A forklift that was lowering a unit of lumber onto the truck bed crushed the employee's little finger, resulting in the amputation of most of the distal phalanx of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high