Incident date: 2015-12-08
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating a reach truck while moving a pallet with product form one location to another. He lost control of the forklift and struck a stack of pallets with product, causing him to lose his balance and fall. His foot got caught, severely lacerating and crushing his left big toe and second toe. He was hospitalized, and the second toe was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high