Incident date: 2018-12-26
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee and a delivery driver were trying to right an electric pallet jack that had fallen to the ground. The employee's right ring finger was caught between a moving part and a fixed part of the pallet jack, causing an amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high