Incident date: 2022-06-27
NAICS industry code: 423510

At 4:03 p.m. on June 27, 2022, a forklift operator was loading a pallet of material onto a carrier truck when the truck pulled away from the dock. The employee fell off the dock, still in the forklift. He tried to jump out of the forklift and it struck him, breaking ribs. A second employee jumped off the dock to help him and suffered a knee injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: low