Incident date: 2019-04-27
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was on a roof behind a parapet wall, guiding a rough-terrain forklift as it raised a trash bin to the roof. The bin crushed the employee's right middle finger against the wall. She was hospitalized and the fingertip was medically 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