Incident date: 2025-02-24
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was operating a forklift in the shipping warehouse. Carbon black residue along with moisture caused the concrete flooring to be slippery. When the employee applied the brakes, the forklift began to slide. As the employee turned the forklift to avoid striking a vertical support beam, his left hand was caught between the support beam and the support bar of the forklift cab. The employee sustained fractures to four fingers and two bones in the palm, as well as a laceration in the palm area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate