Incident date: 2024-05-29
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was delivering a pallet of interior doors and baseboards to a residential home. While raising the pallet with a manual pallet jack, the pallet got stuck. As the employee was trying to retrieve it, his left middle fingertip was pinched and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
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