Incident date: 2021-12-10
NAICS industry code: 311411

An employee was reaching under a 1,000-pound plastic tote, being lifted by a forklift, to retrieve a loose potato. The employee's left ring fingertip was caught between the bottom of the tote and the forklift's forks. The fingertip was 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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high