Incident date: 2017-04-17
NAICS industry code: 484121

The injured employee was at a customer location to pick up lumber. The injured employee closed the back trailer door. As he shut the door, an employee of the customer location backed a forklift into him and pinned him between the truck and the forklift. The injured employee suffered broken vertebrae, three broken ribs, and an injured spleen. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate