Incident date: 2025-05-22
NAICS industry code: 238140

Employees were unloading a pallet jack from the forks of a forklift. The pallet jack dropped off the forks and an employee's right thumb got caught in the handle. The tip of his thumb was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Non-riding pallet jack
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high