Incident date: 2015-08-27
NAICS industry code: 236220

While jacking up a pallet of fixtures and using 2x4s for bracing, an employee had his right index finger and thumb amputated when the pallet came down and smashed the employee's right hand between the pallet and the 2x4s.

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