Incident date: 2017-10-09
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when his hand was smashed between the pallet jack and a metal broom hook that was mounted on an adjacent steel column. He suffered severe hand lacerations and broken bones below his knuckles.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate