Incident date: 2018-04-16
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was moving a pallet of material with a non-mechanized pallet lift. The employee lost their balance and grabbed onto the lift, tipping it over and causing the lift to strike the employee's foot. The employee sustained a foot fracture requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate