Incident date: 2022-10-25
NAICS industry code: 327211

An employee was assisting a forklift to offload glass from a truck and move it to a rack. The employee was struck by the forklift and then the glass fell off the forklift and struck the employee. Being struck by the forklift broke his lower left leg; the glass falling broke his right upper arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate