Incident date: 2019-09-05
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee driving a pallet jack entered the rail dock through the overhead door from the expansion dock. He began traveling east on the rail dock and the pallet jack ran into a barrier pole that protects a door on the rail dock. His foot was caught between the pallet jack and the barrier pole. He sustained a crushing injury to the left foot resulting in amputations to the tips of two toes. He was wearing safety toe boots at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high