Incident date: 2024-04-02
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was putting a wood divider onto a bundle of lumber so that another bundle could be placed on top of it when the bundle fell off the forks of the forklift and onto their hand, crushing it and resulting in a hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate