Incident date: 2024-01-29
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee drove a forklift equipped with a tilt-hopper over to a roll-off dumpster to dump concrete and dirt from a demolition project. The employee got off the forklift and released the lever on the tilt-hopper. The employee's left hand got caught between the tilt-hopper and the roll-off dumpster resulting in a partial amputation to the middle finger and loss of skin from the pad of the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high