Incident date: 2019-05-06
NAICS industry code: 488490

An employee loaded pallets onto a pallet jack. When he started moving the jack his leg was pinned between the pallet jack and a cinder block wall. The employee sustained a fracture to the lower leg and ankle, and a laceration to the heel.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate