Incident date: 2017-11-27
NAICS industry code: 322219

An employee was using a hydraulic pallet jack to move product in the warehouse when his right hand was caught between the handle and frame of the pallet jack, fracturing bones and tearing tendons in his ring and pinky fingers. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate