Incident date: 2017-02-03
NAICS industry code: 337121

An employee was unloading the inside of a truck trailer when a coworker drove a pallet jack into the trailer and struck the employee's leg. The employee suffered a fractured leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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