Incident date: 2020-11-26
NAICS industry code: 452910

On November 26, 2020, an employee was loading a missed pallet of bananas onto a truck using a forklift. At that moment, the loaded truck began pulling away. The forklift was caught between the departing truck and the loading dock, then fell an estimated 3 feet to the ground. The forklift remained in the upright position and the employee remained seated. The employee was hospitalized with back pain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate