Incident date: 2023-01-06
NAICS industry code: 326299

On January 6, 2023, an employee was bending down to take pictures of a steel bin for a customer. A forklift hauling a double-stacked steel bin was entering the same aisle and caught the employee's right leg between the two steel material bins. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture of the right ankle.

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