Incident date: 2025-08-13
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee stepped off his triple pallet jack to retrieve a case of product from a pick slot. When he turned around to place the case on his pallet jack, the pallet jack rolled and struck him, resulting in fractures to the L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate