Incident date: 2016-05-11
NAICS industry code: 336413

An employee was transporting a container filled with metal chips using a forklift. When he attempted to pull the handle on the hopper, his left finger was crushed between the handle and the forklift mast, resulting in a partial amputation halfway through the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high