Incident date: 2015-08-20
NAICS industry code: 113310

An employee was using a forklift to line up the shaft and bearing on a yarder. His finger was inside a bolt hole on a cable drum when the weight was shifted to line up the equipment. His finger got caught between the drum and the forklift fork, necessitating the amputation of his right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high