Incident date: 2021-10-22
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee was unloading merchandise from a trailer using an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack got caught in a pallet on the floor and the employee was ejected from the pallet jack, resulting in fractures to the tibia and humerus.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate