Incident date: 2016-12-09
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee had just come out of the restroom and was waiting by a stack of pallets. A coworker turned on his pallet jack and moved the handle, causing it to move in the wrong direction. The jack then hit the employee's left leg, breaking it above the ankle and requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate