Incident date: 2017-06-24
NAICS industry code: 333319

An employee was using a reach truck to store material on a rack. The employee was standing on the forklift and the employee's left foot was caught between the frame of the forklift and the rack resulting in a crushing injury. The left foot was surgically amputated.

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: Foot (feet), n.e.c.
severity: moderate