Incident date: 2021-03-01
NAICS industry code: 311611

On March 1, 2021, an employee was retrieving a plastic spacer used to separate rows of boxes on a pallet. A floor jack bumped into a nearby stack of pallets, and a pallet struck the employee. The employee suffered fractures to the lower leg and ankle and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate