Incident date: 2015-06-25
NAICS industry code: 928110

On or about June 25, 2015, an employee working at the Army Corp of Engineers Ensley Engineering Yard located at 2915 Riverport Rd in Memphis, Tennessee, was injured and hospitalized. The employee was operating a forklift to move an air conditioning unit up a ramp when it began to fall backwards.  The employee was injured when he was caught between the forklift and the wall of the dry dock, resulting in a severe laceration to his left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate