Incident date: 2019-12-12
NAICS industry code: 424440

On December 12, 2019, around 3:00 PM, an employee was operating a forklift inside a freezer when he pressed the gas instead of the brakes. His hand was outside of the forklift cage at the time and became caught between the forklift and a rack. He suffered a thumb fracture and ligament damage and was hospitalized where the thumb was surgically amputated.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high