Incident date: 2024-10-21
NAICS industry code: 488190

An employee was unloading two pallet jacks off a truck. While unloading one of the pallet jacks, it unexpectedly surged in reverse, pinching the employee's foot between the pallet jack in use and the tines of the pallet jack that had been removed from the truck first. The employee suffered a fractured foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Non-riding pallet jack
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate