Incident date: 2016-03-14
NAICS industry code: 312111

Employees were dropping off and loading product into a bay delivery trailer. One employee was operating a forklift and the second was operating a walkie-rider pallet jack.  As they were transitioning from one side to the other, they rounded the corner, sounding their horns, and collided at the rear of the trailer. The second employee was caught between the mast of the forklift and load guard of the walkie-rider, resulting in fractured ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate