Incident date: 2023-06-28
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was lifting an air conditioning unit off a flatbed truck with a forklift. As the employee was placing a piece of plywood underneath the unit to give it some height so that the forks of the forklift could reach, the unit slipped and caught his right thumb, resulting in a partial amputation of the distal tip of the finger including the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Air conditioning units
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high