Incident date: 2017-04-10
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was operating a forklift to lift a hopper/bin filled with approximately 950 lbs. of scrap metal. The employee's left hand fingers were caught between the forks and the bin while trying to release the waste into a dumpster resulting in the amputation of two fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high