Incident date: 2019-01-02
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee was operating a double pallet jack, carrying plastic pallets. As he was dismounting, he put his hand on a stack of plastic pallets for balance. The momentum of the pallet jack caused the backrest to strike and mash his hand. When he pulled his hand away, he suffered a fracture to his middle finger and a laceration to his ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate