Incident date: 2023-04-04
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was loading pallets onto a truck while stabilizing the pallets with his hands. A second employee went to move the stack of pallets with a pallet jack when the injured employee's hand became caught between the pallet jack and the pallets. As the employee pulled their hand away, they sustained a right index finger avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate