Incident date: 2017-11-02
NAICS industry code: 312130

Two employees placed an electric pallet jack onto the back of a delivery truck. One employee got into the back of the truck and was operating the electric pallet jack; the injured employee was standing outside of the truck. The electric pallet jack was locked in place, and the employee in the back of the truck was moving materials around manually. The electric pallet jack started rolling toward the back end of the truck. The injured employee went to grab it to prevent it from falling out of the truck. The injured employee's right pinky finger was then caught between the rolling electric pallet jack and the side of the truck. He suffered a right pinky fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high