Incident date: 2020-01-02
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was using his hands to push and slide a paper roll onto the forks of a forklift when the operator inadvertently hit a button in the cab and the forks started to raise, causing the roll to move towards the employee. The employee began to run/jump out of the way when the roll struck the employee and pinched his leg against a second roll that was sitting on the floor behind him. He suffered a left fibula fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate