Incident date: 2018-04-13
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to stage a stack of pallets when he lost control of the jack's throttle and crashed into a racking support. His foot was caught between the pallet jack and the racking support, causing a deep contusion that required hospitalization.

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: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate