Incident date: 2024-02-15
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was installing a dock leveler at a customer location. Cardboard was under the plate and a pry bar was used to lift the dock plate to remove the cardboard. The pry bar shifted and the dock plate fell on the employee's left ring and middle fingertips resulting in amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high