Incident date: 2017-03-22
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was pushing a loaded scaffold rack onto a pallet jack and pinched his right thumb between the pallet jack handle and the pipe spool resulting in amputation of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high