Incident date: 2022-03-14
NAICS industry code: 423840

An employee was returning a pallet to his truck after a delivery. While he was adjusting the pallet, which weighed 100-200 pounds, it moved and caught his right little finger against the truck's pallet-securing device. The tip of his little finger was amputated and he suffered a nailbed avulsion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high