Incident date: 2015-09-18
NAICS industry code: 312111

An employee stepped onto an electric pallet jack and lost footing.  He reached for a handhold and accidently grabbed the throttle. The jack lurched forward, crushing his foot between the jack and a pallet.

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: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate