Incident date: 2018-07-16
NAICS industry code: 442210

An employee was riding on a pallet of flooring materials on a powered industrial truck (PIT) to stabilize the load. The PIT was being operated with the forks 4-6 feet high. While it traveled from inside the building to outside the building, the bottom of the pallet broke. The pallet flipped forward and the employee was thrown into the air and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a separated shoulder blade, fractured wrist and arm, torn ACLs in both knees that required surgery, and a chest contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate