Incident date: 2022-02-03
NAICS industry code: 221121

An employee was assisting two co-workers in unloading a pallet jack from a pickup truck bed. The pallet jack began to fall and the employee reached to stop it when his hand went into the pallet jack and his fingertip was amputated by the force of the pallet jack falling down onto his finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high