Incident date: 2018-07-11
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was reversing a pallet jack to retrieve a garbage can which was underneath the rollers when his right leg was caught between the rollers and the pallet jack. He was admitted to the hospital with lacerations and broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate