Incident date: 2015-09-24
NAICS industry code: 111421

An employee was unloading trees from a truck while riding on the forks of a forklift. The forklift driver moved the forks, and the employee's left hand got caught in the chains of the fork, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate