Incident date: 2025-07-09
NAICS industry code: 334413

An employee positioned a pallet jack under a mobile TV stand to lift the stand and then clean the wheels. As the employee raised the pallet jack, the TV stand fell forward toward the handle of the pallet jack. The employee went to catch the TV stand and their right thumb became caught between the TV mount frame and the pallet jack, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Tables, desks, work surfaces
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high