Incident date: 2023-08-04
NAICS industry code: 423840

An employee was traveling down an aisleway in a three-wheeled golf cart. They were moving around a parked forklift when a material cart came from the opposite direction. A wheel on the material cart caught a piece of racking causing the material cart to swing out and hit the injured employee's golf cart. The material cart continued to swing, hitting the injured employee's left leg. The injured employee was also knocked out of the golf cart and landed on the ground 2-3 feet away.
The injured employee sustained fractures to the left leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Golf cart, personnel transport cart
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple leg locations, unspecified
severity: moderate