Incident date: 2024-12-09
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee drove a forklift toward a tag printer mounted on a column at the shipping dock. They reached to retrieve a printer tag and their left thumb was pinned between the printer table and the exterior frame of the forklift. The employee sustained a displaced fracture of the distal phalanx of the left thumb, and partial amputation of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high