Incident date: 2016-12-14
NAICS industry code: 488330

An employee was performing forklift/rigging operations (material handling) with a telescopic handler (telescoping forklift). While adjusting the forks on the handler, the employee's right index finger was caught in a pinch point between the adjustment box and the forks, lacerating and fracturing it. The finger was amputated down to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high