Incident date: 2017-12-04
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee backed a trailer toward a customer's dock, then actuated the customer's dock lock and movable dock plate to bridge the height difference between the trailer threshold and dock. The mechanized dock plate would not clear the trailer threshold so that it would smoothly go into place. The employee grabbed the edge of the dock plate and attempted to lift and guide it into place. The dock plate then pinched his right hand against the trailer and tore off his right ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high