Incident date: 2025-05-02
NAICS industry code: 333517

On May 2, 2025, two employees were lifting a pallet jack with a built-in weight measuring plate into the bed of a truck when the plate shifted as they were lifting it. The plate crushed and severed the injured employee's middle and ring fingertips. A fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Non-riding pallet jack
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high