Incident date: 2017-08-03
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was moving an empty pallet jack used to hoist bags of whey to a platform when her hand was caught between the jack and a safety rail, crushing her right index finger. Her finger had to be surgically amputated below the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonclassifiable
code_source: title: Vehicle, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high