Incident date: 2022-05-15
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was driving a pallet jack to move products in a warehouse. While going backward, the pallet jack turned and hit a bollard. The employee's finger was caught between the steering controls and the bollard resulting in loss of the tip of his fingernail. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate