Incident date: 2017-07-31
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to transport a forklift truck battery when his leg was caught between the pallet jack and the frame of the battery racking system resulting in an amputation injury to the employee's leg.

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: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high