Incident date: 2024-11-19
NAICS industry code: 311611

The injured employee was driving a pallet jack. He rounded a corner as another employee on a stand-up reach truck was shifting into reverse to back up. The two vehicles collided and the pallet jack was swept into stationary racking used for storing product, causing the pallet jack driver to become pinned against the racking. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to their right hand and a perforated bladder and broken pelvis that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) intersecting, turning
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate