Incident date: 2021-05-22
NAICS industry code: 452112

An employee was bringing pallets down from the top of the steel shelving using a walkie stacker forklift. His hand got caught between the shelving and the forklift. As the employee tried to free his hand, he suffered a deep laceration that required surgery and hospitalization to repair.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate