Incident date: 2024-10-17
NAICS industry code: 238220

On October 17, 2024, at approximately 10:15 AM, an employee was riding in the manlift attachment of a forklift when the attachment fell off the forklift, causing the employee to fall approximately 4 feet to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right arm and an injury to a neck vertebra, and they received stitches on their forehead.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  fall or jump from moving vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate