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| Summary Nr: 100570.015 |
Event: 10/25/2017 | Warehouse Forklift Operator Sustains Amputated Fingertip |
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At 7:21 a.m. on October 25, 2017, an employee was working as a warehouse associa te. He was working at a warehouse where orders were fulfilled for a large online retail firm. The facility where he worked was a warehouse in which non-perishab le merchandise was unloaded, processed, loaded, and shipped to customers. He was operating a Crown Model Number 5525-30, with warehouse Serial Number 1227, batt ery-powered, stand-up type forklift. He was loading double-stacked pallets at th e warehouse's loading dock door Number 99 in the Outbound Department. He was loa ding a trailer. A coworker was working nearby checkeing trailers before they wer e loaded by forklift operators such as the employee. A second coworker was worki ng as a drive-by operator. He witnessed the incident. An area manager was the di rect supervisor of all three workers. The employee was preparing to get off the forklift. As he backed up the stand-up industrial truck, he was holding a loosel y hanging strap in his left hand. The strap got pulled under the forklift's movi ng wheels. The employee sustained the amputation of the fingertip of the middle finger on his left hand. The employee was taken by paramedics to Kaiser Hospital in Moreno Valley, CA, for treatment. Surgery was performed there. The employee was hospitalized for no more than four to five hours.
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| Keywords:
amputated, amputation, backing up, caught by, emergency response, entangled, finger, hand, housekeeping, ind trk operator, industrial truck, loading dock, tire, warehouse, wheel
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Hospitalized injury |
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Operating engineers |
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