Incident date: 2017-03-16
NAICS industry code: 321214

An employee was moving and reinstalling equipment. The employee was adjusting the spacer board underneath the piece of equipment when the forklift operator lowered the equipment onto the employee's right middle finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high