Incident date: 2015-05-26
NAICS industry code: 493110

The injured employee was about to start loading a truck from the mattress staging area which was approximately 7'.  The mattress was standing upright and lined up to form a wall to be loaded onto the truck.  As the injured employee step out of the staging area (blind spot), another associate operating the forklift, could not stop in time and ran over the injured employee's left foot.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate