Incident date: 2015-08-19
NAICS industry code: 424420

An employee at the warehouse placed a 35-pound box of degreaser on the forks of a motorized stand-on powered industrial vehicle and hit the wrong button, causing the PIV to move backwards and pin the employee against the rack system. The employee suffered a crushing fracture to the left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate