Incident date: 2015-03-18
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee using a pallet jack, which was trailing behind him, attempted to walk through flap doors while a forklift operator was driving through the doors from the opposite direction.  The forklift had a pallet on the forks. The operator drove forward, blew the horn, and continued to drive through the doors, hitting the employee on the left leg with the pallet.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate