Incident date: 2015-02-09
NAICS industry code: 423440

On 2/9/15, an employee who works for National L.S. Inc. was at a HEB Distribution Center in Houston, Texas.  The employee was about to begin his shift (6:30 am) to unload a truck for the distribution center.  At the time of the accident, the employee  was standing at the side of a Barrett double pallet jack trying to move the machine.  The machine was on and struck the employee, pinning him between the Barrett double pallet jack and another pallet jack next to the area.  The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.  The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Pelvis
severity: moderate