Incident date: 2022-05-27
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was putting an empty pallet on the forks of an electric pallet jack. While maneuvering the pallet jack forks underneath the pallet, the employee's right lower leg was caught between the pallet jack and a stack of empty pallets. The employee sustained a fractured right tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate