Incident date: 2015-09-03
NAICS industry code: 333924

On September 3, 2015, at 3:30 p.m., an employee's left pinky finger got caught in the lift chain of a forklift. The bottom third of his pinky finger was amputated, requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
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