Incident date: 2017-06-14
NAICS industry code: 446110

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift. While he was negotiating a turn, his left hand was crushed against a pallet on a rack, crushing and lacerating his left hand with tendon damage. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate