Incident date: 2016-09-06
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was attempting to dump a tilt hopper. He held onto the area where the hopper slides onto the forks and attempted to push the tilt hopper to empty it.  When it dumped, the hopper base pinched his finger between the fork and base, amputating the first digit of his left-hand pointer finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high