Incident date: 2018-03-10
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. A different employee had backed his lift out of a trailer and left the forks slightly raised. The employee on the electric pallet jack ran into the raised forks, striking his right leg and catching it between his pallet jack and the raised forklift forks. He suffered a compound fracture to his right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate