Incident date: 2017-05-14
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was dropping a pallet of product off at a loading dock using a powered pallet jack when he backed up into a rack. His hand was caught between the rack and the pallet jack's handle, fracturing and cutting his left thumb.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate