Incident date: 2023-06-14
NAICS industry code: 336370

A temporary employee was moving a steel coil using a forklift when the coil slipped off the forks, causing the vehicle to rock. The employee fell out of the vehicle to the floor and a fork from the vehicle came off and struck their right leg. They were hospitalized for a right leg fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate