Incident date: 2020-07-22
NAICS industry code: 321991

An employee was changing a forklift's tire. The employee removed the lug nuts and had grabbed the sides of the tire to remove it. As the employee was rocking the tire, the forklift fell off the jack and pinned the employee's arm between it's fender and the tire. The employees arm was fractured and required surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate