Incident date: 2022-06-23
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was unloading pallets and empty wooden crates from a truck using a forklift and a portable ramp when the forklift hit the inside of the ramp wall at the entrance to the ramp. The forklift tipped over and the employee suffered an injury to their right knee and calf. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate