Incident date: 2019-11-17
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee was in a staging area, moving a pallet using a stand-up forklift. The forklift began to tilt forward and the employee fell off it; the pallet then fell off of the forklift and the forklift came back down, landing on the employee's legs. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate