Incident date: 2024-12-10
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was training other employees on inspecting finished goods on a pallet. When he knelt down behind the pallet and used his left hand to indicate what the failed inspection point was, a riding pallet jack entered the staging area and the employee's left little finger was crushed between the end of the fork and the pallet. The distal phalanx was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high