Incident date: 2022-10-20
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was traveling down a warehouse aisle on an electric pallet jack. While the pallet jack was making a U-turn, its handle struck the warehouse racking. The employee 's right ring finger was pinched and amputated between the handle and the racking. The finger was surgically reattached.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high