Incident date: 2018-05-24
NAICS industry code: 423720

At 7:08 p.m. on May 24, 2018, an employee was driving a pallet jack near the heavy pack conveyor. he stepped backward off of the moving pallet jack as it simultaneously veered towards the conveyor. The pallet jack struck the conveyor and pinned his left lower leg between the jack and the steel conveyor causing a severe laceration to his lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate