Incident date: 2018-02-01
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee and coworker were moving a pallet jack with a forklift when the pallet jack flipped and fell, landing on and smashing his ring finger. He was hospitalized and had surgery. His ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high