Incident date: 2021-03-17
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was moving trash with a forklift. As the employee emptied the forklift's trash hopper, his left ring finger was caught in a pinch point and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high