Incident date: 2024-04-22
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was using a manual pallet jack to move a cardboard bale when they became pinned between the pallet jack and a dock railing. They sustained fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Non-riding pallet jack
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate