Incident date: 2023-12-01
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee was working on a 26-foot box truck with a rear lift gate. The lift gate was down and needed to be secured to move the truck out of the service bay. The employee used a forklift to raise the lift gate. The employee then got off the forklift to adjust the lift gate. The lift gate slipped off the forks and struck his left hand, causing an amputation to the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high