Incident date: 2024-10-24
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack and backing it in to pull out drums to take to another location for storage. Their left little finger was caught between the pallet jack handle and a metal control panel in the building, resulting in a fractured finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate