Incident date: 2017-03-31
NAICS industry code: 237130

While unloading a reel of wire with a pallet jack, the wheels of the pallet jack rolled off the truck's lift gate causing the wire and the pallet jack to flip over onto the ground and strike the employee's ankle and fracturing it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate