Incident date: 2020-06-03
NAICS industry code: 311911

At about 8:55 p.m., an employee trying to dump waste into a large container using a forklift with a self-dumping attachment. As the forks were raised, the load shifted and pinched his left ring finger, partially amputating it. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high