Incident date: 2016-04-06
NAICS industry code: 333923

An employee was attempting to push a 400- to 500-pound upright plastic floater when his left ring fingertip was caught between the plastic tank and a forklift tine. He suffered a possible fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high