Incident date: 2024-06-09
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. He moved it into a pen for recharging and stepped down. The pallet jack, still moving, caught his right leg against a guardrail. He suffered two fractures to the right tibia: a tibial shaft fracture and a displaced tibial plateau fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate