Incident date: 2019-10-16
NAICS industry code: 424940

An employee was training a new hire on the milk selection process, which involves the use of a portable (wrist mounted) RF scanner and a powered pallet jack. He was walking backwards behind his jack when the lower part of his left leg was caught between the pallet jack and a stationary jack. The impact fractured his lower left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate