Incident date: 2023-06-13
NAICS industry code: 336320

An employee was walking back to his forklift after stopping to remove paper from its forks. Another forklift struck him as it backed out of a semi-truck trailer. He was pinched between the side of his own forklift and the counterweights on the forklift that was backing up; he suffered a contusion from the top of his left thigh to his ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate