Incident date: 2017-08-16
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was operating an electric-powered forklift. He turned to back up while his hand was resting on the outside of the vehicle. His right ring finger was then smashed between the frame of the vehicle and an adjacent steel rack, amputating his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high