Incident date: 2025-07-07
NAICS industry code: 236115

On July 7, 2025, at approximately 1:29 PM, employees were unloading material and equipment from a trailer in the construction yard. Part of the load included a forklift attachment, located near the edge of the trailer. One employee was using a forklift to unload a crate of material located next to the attachment and struck the front crate with the forks, causing the crate to strike the attachment. The attachment fell over the side of the trailer and struck the injured employee who was walking by at that time. The employee suffered six fractured ribs and four fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate