Incident date: 2023-03-27
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was unloading a pallet jack from a truck. The pallet jack slipped off the truck and as the employee went to stop it from falling, his finger became caught in the wheel of the pallet jack, resulting in an amputation of the right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high