Incident date: 2020-05-01
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was attempting to retrieve a small stack of pallets using a front rider pallet jack. As the employee was reversing to exit the rack storing the pallets, the pallet jack s front lift control box caught on a rack beam. The employee s left index finger was caught between the lift box and the rack beam, and the fingertip was amputated.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high