Incident date: 2016-03-08
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was unloading tote pallets from his delivery truck with a ride on electric pallet jack. The pallet jack struck a fixed light pole and the employee fell off the pallet jack onto the floor resulting in a right hip fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate