Incident date: 2024-01-04
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee completed a delivery to a customer and was exiting the customer's location. While trying to hold the door open and move his pallet jack at the same time, his left hand was caught between the pallet jack and a wooden crate used for storage. The employee suffered a left index fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object pushed or pulled 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