Incident date: 2024-01-02
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was unloading concrete stumps for light poles off a forklift. One of the stumps slipped off the forks and the employee attempted to grab it when it crushed his left index fingertip, resulting in surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Structural blocks  stone and masonry
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high