Incident date: 2022-03-22
NAICS industry code: 423440

An employee was driving a pallet jack down an aisle. Another pallet jack was about to strike his own, so he jumped off. His pallet jack then ran over his right ankle. He suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate