Incident date: 2024-03-01
NAICS industry code: 333924

An employee was offloading truck-mounted forklift carriages to palletize and band them. He had moved one carriage and was putting another one on top of it when the second carriage slipped. His left hand was crushed between the two carriages, and he suffered cuts to the index and middle fingers. He was hospitalized, requiring stitches and tendon surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with non-running objects or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine parts  unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate