Incident date: 2018-06-30
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using a man-up forklift to look at the stuck forks of another forklift, about 15 feet off the ground. The employee's hand touched the stuck forklift's mast, and the slack of the chain dislodged. The chain amputated three of his fingers just below the knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high