Incident date: 2015-04-28
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was operating a motorized pallet jack.  He fractured his right thumb when it became caught between the grocery rack and the handle of the pallet jack. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate