Incident date: 2017-07-18
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was driving a forklift to transport a dumpster full of wood scrap to a scrap pile. When he hit the trip lever to tip the dumpster forward, the bar came up and pinched his left-hand fingers between it and a forklift fork. His left middle and ring fingers were crushed and lacerated, and his ring finger had to be surgically amputated to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high