Incident date: 2015-01-27
NAICS industry code: 236116

On January 26, 2015, at approximately 8:06 a.m., at the Tel Hai Retirement Community, the worker sustained a partial amputation. At the time of the incident, workers were using a forklift truck to lift a job box (metal box) onto the upper level. While taking the job box off of the forklift truck, the worker's hand was pinched between the forklift truck and the job box. He was taken to Brandywine Hospital Emergency Outpatient. He sustained a bone fracture and partial amputation of his right fourth finger, distal phalanx, distal tuft, with a loss of overlaying soft tissue. He was treated and discharged.

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