Incident date: 2015-07-15
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee working from a pallet mounted on a forklift suffered a fingertip amputation when his finger was caught in the descending forklift mast.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high