Incident date: 2017-03-13
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack and moved it onto the lift gate. The lift gate 
was wet and slippery from running a previous pallet that contained product packed in ice. The jack starting sliding 
toward the curbside of the platform. As the pallet was sliding to the edge, the associate tried to 
keep the pallet level by placing his arm on the pallet, to keep it from falling. The pallet jack continued to slide and as the employee attempted to get out of the way, his finger slid across the pallet jack and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high