Incident date: 2022-06-19
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was using a forklift to load bales of banded cardboard into the back of a 53-foot trailer. The employee finished loading a bale, tapped his horn, and begin to back out of the trailer. The truck pulled away from the loading dock and the forklift fell out of the back of the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured L2 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate