Incident date: 2020-01-29
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee was parked at the end of an aisle with his pallet jack. He asked a forklift driver to reverse in order to make room for him to drive his pallet jack. The forklift driver accidentally drove the forklift forward and struck the employee's left foot, causing a laceration and broken bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate