Incident date: 2019-08-24
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was trying to set a spring-operated dock plate in place when a malfunction occurred and the employee's fingers were pinched in the dock plate. The employee suffered right index and middle fingertip amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high