Incident date: 2015-08-13
NAICS industry code: 445110

Two employees were moving a pallet with a manual pallet jack when a piece of the wooden pallet broke. While one of the employee's reached down to grab the piece of wood, the other employee lowered the pallet catching the injured employee's left middle finger. The left middle fingertip was amputated and surgically reattached.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high