Incident date: 2022-10-16
NAICS industry code: 484110

Two employees were putting a dock-leveler plate in place to load a 10-foot box truck with product. One end of the plate dropped onto an employee's left little finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip just above the fingernail line.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: high