Incident date: 2021-04-30
NAICS industry code: 444130

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when the pallet jack jumped backward, smashing her thumb between the pallet jack and a cardboard bailer. The employee suffered a crushing injury to her left thumb and a possible amputation.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high