Incident date: 2017-04-18
NAICS industry code: 335312

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to move a semi-assembled motor mounted on a frame chassis. The employee was walking backwards with the pallet jack in front when his right thumb was caught between the steering control of the pallet jack and the storage rack resulting in blunt force trauma and a deep tissue laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate