Incident date: 2024-02-13
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was on a forklift picking orders of conduit reels to load on an 18-wheel flatbed truck. As he loaded reels onto the truck, he identified two reels needed for a shipment in a row of ten. He rolled the two reels out by hand in order to reach them with the forklift. As he rolled one of the reels out, the reel rolled back into the row. He pulled the reel back out and went to hold it in place (chock) with a bolt when his left index finger was caught between the reel and the concrete ground, resulting in a fingertip amputation below the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high