Incident date: 2022-05-10
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to move stock when their left thumb became caught between the pallet jack and a steel structure. The thumb was amputated.

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: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate