Incident date: 2022-04-11
NAICS industry code: 493120

On April 11, 2022, an employee was operating an electric double pallet jack in the dock area. He placed a pallet of frozen food products on the dock in preparation for shipment. As he drove away from the dock to get more product, his leg got caught between the side of his pallet jack and a pallet of frozen food products on another pallet jack that was driving toward the dock. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate