Incident date: 2021-10-21
NAICS industry code: 423990

An employee was operating a high-rise order picker to stack pallets and was attempting to straighten out an uneven pallet. The weight of the pallet shifted and the employee fell out of the order picker machine to the floor resulting in a broken right leg.

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