Incident date: 2024-04-04
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack in reverse to load a double-stack empty battery platter rack into a vertical reciprocating conveyor infeed. The rack struck the central divider, causing the racks to slide back toward the pallet jack and strike the employee's left hand, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high