Incident date: 2024-10-06
NAICS industry code: 324122

An employee was operating a forklift and looking backward while driving in reverse when their hand/fingers were caught between an elevated platform and the forklift. The employee sustained amputations of the right middle and ring fingertips below the fingernail.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high