Incident date: 2022-06-29
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was operating a walkie stacker, walking backward toward a door, when their arm was caught through the handle of the equipment and was pinned against the dock door. Their hand twisted back and could not let go of the throttle. The employee was hospitalized for torn ligaments.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate