Incident date: 2016-06-28
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was operating a pallet jack and was driving through the curtains to the freezer. As he used his right hand to open the curtain, his left hand was caught between the pallet jack handle and a post, smashing his left thumb. He was hospitalized and required thumb 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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate