Incident date: 2020-05-05
NAICS industry code: 321920

On 5/5/20, an employee was walking to his work station when he was struck by the tail of a forklift as it was making a three-point turn. He sustained a broken right leg and was hospitalized. The designated pedestrian walkway was not used at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate