Incident date: 2019-08-05
NAICS industry code: 311421

An employee was driving a forklift with a dump bucket attachment full of dirt. The employee stopped the forklift and prepared to dump the bucket. When he pulled the manual latch of the dump bucket, the bucket slid backwards toward the lift. One of his fingers was caught and partially amputated between the forklift and the bucket.

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