Incident date: 2025-03-17
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was adjusting a tote of finished goods within a stack. Another stack of finished goods was lowered by a forklift onto the tote the employee was adjusting. The employee's little finger was crushed, resulting in an amputation to the finger just past the nailbed.

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