Incident date: 2016-04-14
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating a powered industrial vehicle when she lost balance and grabbed onto the throttle. When she grabbed the throttle, she drove into a wall, smashing her leg between a rack and the vehicle. She suffered a large laceration that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate