Incident date: 2024-08-05
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was sorting pallets using a forklift when the forklift back into stacked pallets and some of them fell and struck him in the back. The employee was hospitalized with back pain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate