Incident date: 2019-03-27
NAICS industry code: 333120

At 6:45 p.m. on March 27, 2019, an employee was operating a stand-up forklift in reverse. As the forklift approached a stack of filters, the employee's left little finger was crushed between a pallet in the filter stack and the vertical safety bar on the forklift. The finger was broken and part of it was amputated.

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: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high