OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221391899

FROZEN SPECIALTIES, INC.

ARCHBOLD, OH· 2021-09-13T00:00:00

Event: Caught Between, Elevated, Equipment Operator, Food processing, Forklift, Forks, Incorrect Equipment, Industrial Truck, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Work Procedures, Manual Mat Handling, Manufacturing, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, PIV, Pallet, Palletized Cargo, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Storage Rack, Unsafe Position, Unstable Position, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 311412
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345533376
Employer profile: FROZEN SPECIALTIES, INC.
Summary number: 221391899
Report ID: 0524700

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip when caught between rack and PI

Investigation abstract

At 10:30 a.m. on September 13, 2021, an employee working as shipping and receiving clerk for a frozen food manufacturer was working in the warehouse. A coworker, who worked as a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) operator, asked the employee to assist in looking for a pallet of product located up high on pallet rack B26. The employee stepped onto the forks of the PIV and held onto fork carriage while the coworker lifted employee into the air. The employee caught his left index finger under the pallet rack and the forklift carriage. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputation of left index finger below the nail bed.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 55 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
364

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