Incident date: 2021-12-09
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was traveling down an aisle on a powered pallet jack and a co-worker (injured employee) was traveling closely behind on a reach truck. The employee on the pallet jack turned into an aisle and stopped. The co-worker on the reach truck also turned into the same aisle and struck the forks of the pallet jack, crushing their left foot and resulting in a fractured toe and an amputated toe.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high