Incident date: 2025-06-04
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was backing up a pallet jack to unload a trailer. His head struck the bottom edge of the trailer door, and suffered a scalp laceration and the amputation of his right ear.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Ear(s)
severity: high