Incident date: 2024-06-22
NAICS industry code: 493110

While an employee was driving an electric pallet jack, the jack hit scrap metal on the floor and it lacerated his Achilles tendon.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate