Incident date: 2023-08-28
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was driving a forklift down a cross aisle when the vehicle collided with another forklift. Their forklift then veered into a bollard pole and the employee's left leg was caught between the forklift and the bollard pole, resulting in a crush injury that required surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high