Incident date: 2020-02-13
NAICS industry code: 722320

An employee was operating a forklift with a mule attachment. The metal frame of the mule came off the metal bracket on the forklift. As the employee attempted to adjust it, his pinky finger was pinched between the metal bracket on the forklift and the metal mule frame. The top one-third of the employee's pinky finger was amputated.

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