Incident date: 2020-12-15
NAICS industry code: 425120

An employee was traveling down a warehouse aisle on a motorized pallet jack. The pallet jack collided with another pallet jack traveling in the opposite direction. The employee jumped off just before the collision, and their foot made contact with the other pallet jack. The foot was broken in two places and the heel was crushed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate