Incident date: 2019-03-20
NAICS industry code: 111411

An employee was pushing a load on a pallet jack up an incline in a mushroom house. The load slid back toward the load backrest, and the employee's left thumb was caught between the load bin and the backrest. The employee suffered an amputation to the nail and bed of the left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: high