Incident date: 2015-05-22
NAICS industry code: 327390

A wooden pallet got stuck on a roller conveyor.  The employee hooked a chain onto the pallet and the other end onto the mast of a forklift.  As the employee hooked the chain onto the mast of the forklift, the forklift operator side shifted the forklift mast, causing the employee's finger to get pinched between the hook on the chain and the forklift mast.  The employee suffered a fingertip amputation of his right index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high