Incident date: 2016-03-29
NAICS industry code: 322230

Employees were measuring the receiving dock bay door area for a replacement dock plate. The dock plate springs opened quickly and the dock plate caught the injured employee's fingers in a pinch point between the dock plate and the dock bay door surface resulting in the amputation of the right middle and index fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high