Incident date: 2017-10-27
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was positioned between a skidder and a forklift when the skidder backed up and pinned the employee between the two pieces of equipment. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs, a punctured lung, a ruptured spleen, and a liver laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Skidders-cable and grapple
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate