OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #892158
NAUTICAL RUBBER CORPORATION
COLUMBIA, MD·
Event description
Employee's finger crushed when caught in forklift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 got onto a forklift to balance a pallet jack on the forks while they were being lowered. His hands became caught in the machinery, crushing his left middle finger. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Laborers, except construction (889)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.