Incident date: 2021-01-11
NAICS industry code: 332312

On January 11, 2020, an employee was working from the ground to make sure that a forklift was setting bundles of metal plates (about 5,000 pounds) in the right place. One of the bundles was not correctly placed next to another; he was trying to adjust it when it shifted. His left index finger was caught between the two plates, causing the amputation of his fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high