Incident date: 2015-01-09
NAICS industry code: 484230

Employee in the back of a trailer amputated his thumb while catching a falling pallet truck by the wheel well opening.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high