Incident date: 2015-02-02
NAICS industry code: 213112

The injured employee had his left hand on a forklift, signaling to the operator to lower the forks due to an unbalanced situation with a parts catcher screen assembly.  In the process of lowering the forks the screen assembly shifted smashing the tip of the employees index finger on his left hand between the bonnet of the manual valve of the screen assembly and the forks.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: moderate