Incident date: 2019-02-22
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was operating a stand up forklift and attempted to go through an elevated door way. The top mast of the forklift struck the brick wall of the doorway causing the forklift to tip over and land on the employee's foot. The employee was hospitalized for a foot injury requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
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