Incident date: 2022-11-14
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was repairing a garage door while on a wooden pallet that was lifted by a forklift. The overhead door came down and struck the employee or the pallet causing the employee to fall about 7 feet to the concrete floor of the shop. The employee sustained fractures to both wrists.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate