Incident date: 2020-09-16
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using a forklift to fill orders in a warehouse and attempting to retrieve a pallet between two stacks of other pallets. As he was driving between the two stacks, his foot was caught on a pallet on the left side of the forklift, pinning his leg between the pallet and the forklift. His left leg broke, requiring hospitalization.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate