Incident date: 2022-10-26
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was using a pallet jack to load pallets into a trailer. The employee stepped off the pallet jack and the vehicle continued to move forward, crushing his leg between the pallet jack and a pallet. He sustained fibula and tibia fractures and two ankle bone fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate