Incident date: 2023-10-03
NAICS industry code: 493110

Employees were using a powered industrial truck (PIT) to move steel dock plates into a scrap dumpster. The injured employee was giving hand signals/directions to the PIT operator when his hand became caught between the forks of the PIT and a steel plate. A finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high