Incident date: 2024-02-21
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using an order picker. A forklift was being maneuvered around the order picker when its carriage caught the edge of a pallet and forced a stack of pallets forward. The employee was pinned against the order picker by the pallets and suffered a broken left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate