Incident date: 2018-11-05
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was struck by a forklift as it backed up. The employee fell backward and hit their head on the warehouse floor, suffering a small brain bleed, a fracture to the back of the skull, bruising of the left eye, and a small left cheek laceration.

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: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate