Incident date: 2025-05-15
NAICS industry code: 493120

A temporary employee was operating an electric pallet jack in the warehouse, picking product for customers. He was moving his pallet jack out of the way of another employee when his left leg was caught between the pallet jack and warehouse racking. The employee sustained a compound fracture to his lower left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate