Incident date: 2020-12-12
NAICS industry code: 484122

Two employees were offloading product for a residential delivery. They were using a manual pallet jack to move a load onto the lift gate of a truck when the jack and the load fell to the ground and landed on one employee's hand. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high