Incident date: 2024-08-09
NAICS industry code: 322212

An employee was walking to their truck when they were caught between a safety wall and the counterweights of a forklift that was backing up. The employee was hospitalized with multiple crushing injuries, including broken bones and lacerations that required skin grafts.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate