Incident date: 2024-08-30
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was operating a standup forklift. While making a turn, her left hand was crushed between the lift and a rack. The employee suffered an open fracture of the distal phalanx of her left thumb, an open displaced fracture of the proximal phalanx of her left little finger, a laceration to her left thumb and left little finger without damage to the nail, and an unspecified subluxation of her left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Thumb(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate