Incident date: 2018-08-28
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was walking through a facility conducting an inspection when a forklift operator came around a corner and struck the employee, who then fell onto aluminum billets stacked on the floor. He broke his left leg and right shoulder, and he required stitches on the back of his head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate