Incident date: 2020-02-21
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was reaching with a push stick to adjust an empty plastic bottle that was stuck about 14 feet overhead. A forklift backed out of an 18-wheeler trailer and struck the employee's right leg, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized and the employee's right foot was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Foot (feet), n.e.c.
severity: high