Incident date: 2015-08-25
NAICS industry code: 312111

Employee was operating a semi-trailer lift gate to lift a load onto the truck.  While the gate was lifting he tried to open the latch and his fingertip got caught between the lift gate and the latch.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Liftgates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high