Incident date: 2016-11-28
NAICS industry code: 311930

An employee placed a pallet of material on a platform with a forklift and then backed the forklift up to the platform gate. When the employee reached out of the lift to shut the gate, the index and middle fingers were crushed between the gate and the forklift cage. The employee's middle finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate