Incident date: 2024-09-17
NAICS industry code: 324191

An employee was putting together cardboard boxes in order to ship a product while a nearby forklift was grabbing a quarter-full tote from a rack that was 12 feet high. The forklift pushed the tote off the pallet rack and it struck the employee, resulting in broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate