Incident date: 2023-04-28
NAICS industry code: 312111

An employee was operating a walkie-rider and backing into a pallet that was on racking. While elevating the pallet to remove it from the racking, the employee's left middle finger became caught between the mast of the walkie-rider and a racking shelf. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high