Incident date: 2025-04-22
NAICS industry code: 423140

On April 22, 2025, an employee was loading a transmission onto the truck. He went to manually adjust the forks of a sit-down forklift when the transmission fell. The employee's right middle finger got caught between the concrete and the fork, resulting in traumatic amputation of the distal phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high