Incident date: 2020-07-13
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was setting up work stations and maneuvering a pallet jack down an aisle-way.  Upon setting the load down, he pressed his left thumb against the racks. The handle of the pallet jack then came down and smashed his left thumb. He sustained a crushed left thumb, resulting in an open fracture and partial amputation of the left thumb tip.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high