Incident date: 2021-06-09
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee was using a pallet jack to load a trailer. The jack ran over a piece of broken pallet and the handle of the pallet jack struck the employee in the leg. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate