Incident date: 2021-09-13
NAICS industry code: 332999

Two employees were trying to right an overturned pallet of 10-foot angle iron using a forklift. One employee's left middle finger was caught between the pallet of angle iron and another pallet below. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high