Abstract: At approximately 11:50 a.m. on December 15, 2004, Employee #1, a packaging laborer, was stacking 2-in. by 4-in. wooden boards with a pallet jack. The employer was the wholesale distributor of decorative items and gifts and was relocating his warehouse. Employee #1 and his coworkers were at the new warehouse setting up the racks using two pallet jacks that were on a pile of wooden boards. The pallet jacks had a hydraulic mechanism to lower and raise their forks. Employee #1 was unloading the sheets off the pallet jacks and placing the lumbers under the sheets, when a coworker lowered the forks of a pallet jack, causing the plywood sheets to lower onto Employee #1's finger. Employee #1's right index finger was amputated at the first outer knuckle. Employee #1 was taken to the hospital and treated for his injuries.