Incident date: 2022-04-29
NAICS industry code: 484121

A YRC Freight employee had just unstrapped a 2,700-pound crate inside a trailer, about halfway down its length. A forklift picked it up to remove it from the trailer. The crate fell over and struck the employee, who suffered a broken right leg, left leg, and right wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate