Incident date: 2018-06-20
NAICS industry code: 238350

An employee was sliding the fork of an extendable boom forklift when the employee's left middle finger was amputated to the first knuckle between the sliding fork and the forklift carriage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
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