Incident date: 2024-04-11
NAICS industry code: 485410

Three employees were cleaning the shop and were putting an engine stand above the office into storage. Two of the employees rolled the engine stand onto the forks of a forklift. One employee got on top of the forks and was holding the engine stand in place with the forks elevated. When it got to the second stage there was a bump that caused the engine stand to dislodge and both the employee and the stand fell to the ground approximately 6 feet below. The employee sustained broken bones and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate