Incident date: 2019-02-05
NAICS industry code: 211112

A maintenance technician was using a pallet jack to move blast doors when his right middle finger was caught in the pinch point created by the moving pallet jack handle resulting in a partial amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high