Incident date: 2022-05-07
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee was operating a powered industrial truck (PIT) with a load of storage rack decking. The operator was traveling down a storage rack aisleway when the load struck a rack upright causing the load to be pushed back and strike the operator resulting in a laceration to left knee and fracture injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate