Incident date: 2020-10-01
NAICS industry code: 423910

On October 1, 2020, around 6:30 PM, the injured employee was operating an order picker to fill orders. Another employee struck a pallet, which was then pushed into the injured employee's order picker, causing the injured employee to lose balance and fall approximately 15 feet to the ground. The injured employee sustained a brain bleed and fractures to the skull, ribs, arm, and shoulder. Fall protection was not worn at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate