Incident date: 2019-08-07
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was stepping off a stand-up forklift in the battery charging area in order to charge the lift. The lift moved as the employee stepped off, and it pinched his right ankle between the lift and a metal cart. The employee was hospitalized for a broken right ankle that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate