Incident date: 2023-03-18
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was unloading recyclables and empty pallets when his right ring finger was caught between the pallet jack's grab bar and a wooden pallet, resulting in amputation of flesh underneath the nail to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high