Incident date: 2021-08-24
NAICS industry code: 424440

An employee was working on the production floor in a staging area where she was folding and labeling cartons. The employee stepped out of the aisles of stacked pallets and was struck by a reversing forklift transporting a pallet of cartons. The forklift struck her right foot and she was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate