Incident date: 2015-10-07
NAICS industry code: 311615

Maintenance employees were using a forklift to lift a pallet jack to check the wheels. While the pallet jack was being lifted, the battery fell out and struck one of the employee's in the right leg fracturing it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Battery-vehicle
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate