Incident date: 2019-11-25
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee in the battery room changed a battery on a walk-behind powered pallet jack. As the employee was exiting the battery room his thumb was caught and smashed between the pallet jack and a concrete bollard. The employee sustained a partial thumb 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