Incident date: 2020-02-24
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was unloading palletized scrap metal from the bed of a bobtail truck using a pallet jack. The pallet of scrap metal started to fall over the edge at the end of the truck causing the pallet jack to raise up and crush the employee's right index finger between it and the scrap metal. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high