Incident date: 2020-12-23
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee on a pallet jack and an employee on a forklift collided at the entrance to a freezer. When the collision occurred, the pallet jack handle broke, causing the employee on the pallet jack to fall forward, where their pinky finger was caught between the forklift grate and the pallet jack handle. The employee suffered a laceration to their pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate