Incident date: 2021-12-20
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating a high reach forklift. As the employee was backing up the forklift, his elbow struck a bracket on the pallet racking. The employee sustained a fracture to his right elbow and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate