Incident date: 2020-01-18
NAICS industry code: 337215

An employee was assembling warehouse storage racks/shelving when a PIT struck and knocked over three 4-foot-wide by 30-foot-long upright racks that were laying parallel to the floor in the staging area. The uprights struck the employee, who suffered a fractured hip and three fractures in his back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate