Incident date: 2022-12-16
NAICS industry code: 922140

On December 16, 2022, at 12:45 PM, an employee was using an electric pallet jack to move materials in a recycling area. As he was walking backward, he became pinched between the load he was moving and a pallet full of other materials. The pallet jack rolled over his foot, resulting in foot fractures that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate