Incident date: 2025-01-08
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was backing into a warehouse on a stand-up forklift to pick up a pallet. He lost his balance as he turned to pick up the pallet, then grabbed the pallet rack to steady himself. His hand was caught between the rack and the forklift, and his fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high