Incident date: 2025-02-12
NAICS industry code: 327331

An employee was retrieving a pallet from a customer and cutting off the shrink wrap. The employee reached to push the shrink wrap into a dumpster when the forks on the powered industrial vehicle tilted and crushed his fourth and fifth fingers. The employee sustained an amputation of the fourth and fifth fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high