Incident date: 2015-07-03
NAICS industry code: 336111

On July 3, 2015, at approximately 4:50 a.m., an employee was injured while operating a battery-operated fork tugger industrial truck. The employee picked up a load of VVTs and was backing up when the stand, which had parts on top, struck the corner of a set of steps. This shoved the stand forward, causing the employee's finger to become crushed between the handrail and the stand.  The employee's right index fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high