Incident date: 2025-05-08
NAICS industry code: 711310

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to unload a pallet from a delivery truck. While he was turning the pallet jack to move it backward, it sped up, spun, and collided with a loaded, stationary pallet on the ground. His right foot was pinned between the loaded stationary pallet and the pallet jack. The foot was lacerated and he was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate