Incident date: 2015-06-15
NAICS industry code: 424130

An employee was turning the corner while riding a PIV electric pallet lift.  The brakes failed, so the employee quickly fell from the PIV.  When he fell, his left foot was run over by a different PIV lift going in the opposite direction.  The employee's foot was smashed; he was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by another vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate