Incident date: 2020-02-21
NAICS industry code: 316110

An employee was operating an order picker to place pallets on shelving when he lost his handle on the controls and overcorrected. The order picker then struck a rack, and his arm was caught and broken between the rack and the order picker.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate