Incident date: 2017-12-13
NAICS industry code: 335122

An employee was reversing a forklift when her right hand was caught between the sidebar of the forklift cage and a pallet stored on a rack. Her pinky finger suffered a compound fracture, and her fingertip had to be 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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high