Incident date: 2020-02-01
NAICS industry code: 238110

Employees were using an extending boom forklift to move a dumpster. The injured employee was securing the dumpster to the forklift forks with chains. The employee's foot was leveraged against the side of a railing when the dumpster and forklift shifted slightly and pinched the employee's toes between the dumpster and the railing. As a result, two of the employee's right toes were amputated.

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: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high