Incident date: 2022-12-06
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was operating a variable reach forklift to transport an 8" x 8" x 14' timber at a jobsite. The right-side tires entered the grass shoulder at the edge of the road, and the forklift tipped over a three-foot rock dike. The employee sustained a fractured T11 vertebra, and possible fractures to four ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate