Incident date: 2019-11-04
NAICS industry code: 423390

An employee was finished performing duties on the warehouse floor. While reaching down to grab his laptop bag, he had positioned his hand on a fusion table. A nearby forklift carrying a PVC pipe was rocked; the pipe went to the back of the forks and the edge of the table. The employee was caught and sustained a revision amputation of the left pinky finger.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high