Incident date: 2022-02-08
NAICS industry code: 322299

An employee was using a standup forklift to stack pallets. The employee reversed the forklift, rotated and accelerated, when he fell out of the forklift and his right leg was pinned between a guardrail and the forklift, resulting in a broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate