Incident date: 2025-06-09
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was moving a concrete jersey barrier with a pallet jack. The barrier broke near its base and toppled onto the employee's right foot, causing injuries to the third and fourth toes including an amputation of the distal tissues and tuft of the distal phalanx at the fourth digit with at least one small, nondisplaced fracture of the tuft of the second distal phalanx with overlying soft tissue swelling. They also sustained a comminuted fracture of the tuft of the third distal phalanx with multiple displaced bone fragments and overlying soft tissue swelling. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  Struck by shifting, dislodged load in transport
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high