Incident date: 2022-08-17
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was backing up a forklift, staging pallets for shipping. The employee's hand was pinched between the forklift's safety cage and a pallet, causing amputations to four fingers (including the complete amputation of the ring finger).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high