Incident date: 2016-12-12
NAICS industry code: 453998

On December 12, 2016, at approximately 11:10 a.m., an employee was using a hand-operated pallet mover to retrieve a pallet from the bulk storage area. As she moved the machine backwards, her hand was caught between a steel upright and the handle of the machine, fracturing her right hand and right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate