Incident date: 2024-06-18
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was unloading tissue while a nearby forklift was preparing to carry a large bale of paper. The forklift moved forward instead of backward, knocking the employee to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate