Incident date: 2019-08-20
NAICS industry code: 336320

On August 20, 2019, an employee was adjusting the forks on a powered industrial truck when a second employee drove down an adjacent row and struck/pushed returnable metal frame packaging toward the first employee. The first employee was pinned between the packaging and the mast of his powered industrial truck, suffering fractured ribs, a lacerated kidney, and a lung contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate