Incident date: 2021-07-23
NAICS industry code: 452910

The injured employee was standing on the left side of his pallet jack applying stickers to it. A co-worker was operating a pallet jack in the same area. The co-worker was moving to pick up a pallet and the equipment jerked to the left and struck the injured employee's left foot and ankle, pinning them to the pallet jack. The employee's foot and ankle were fractured.

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: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
severity: moderate