Incident date: 2020-03-02
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was moving a UPS cabinet off a pallet using a pallet jack. The pallet buckled and tipped toward the employee, bending his right hand back. He suffered two broken bones in the hand and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Electric parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate