Incident date: 2022-02-27
NAICS industry code: 424110

An employee was dumping a trash hopper (carried by a forklift) into an outside dumpster. As the employee was releasing a lever on the hopper with their right hand, their left middle finger was caught between the hopper and the forklift fork. The employee suffered a partial amputation from the first knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high