Incident date: 2020-12-17
NAICS industry code: 424490

On December 17, 2020, an employee was standing on the fork of a forklift as it lowered a powered pallet jack. The jack tipped and the employee jumped to avoid being struck by it. He suffered a broken kneecap and an injury to the mid-leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate