Incident date: 2021-12-03
NAICS industry code: 484121

On December 3, 2021, at the unloading dock, an employee was using a forklift to unload boxes from a trailer onto a pallet. As he was backing out of the truck's trailer and dock plate, the employee's left leg hit the dock's guardrails, resulting in a fractured fibula and tibia that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate