Incident date: 2022-07-30
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was backing a loaded pallet jack out of a trailer onto a lift gate. When the employee applied the brakes, the pallet jack kept rolling. To keep from being run over, he jumped off the lift gate to the ground. He suffered a strained/sprained lower back, two broken left-side ribs, and a broken left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate