Incident date: 2016-01-27
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was loading pallets into a trailer using a pallet jack . Some of the pallets started to fall. His hand got caught in the pallet jack's handle when he tried to catch the falling pallets and his left index finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high