Incident date: 2019-02-25
NAICS industry code: 312111

An employee was operating a stand up forklift and contacted the closing brackets on the corrugated baler machine. His left leg was caught between the forklift and the baler causing a fracture and laceration to his ankle and foot. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
severity: moderate