Incident date: 2018-07-17
NAICS industry code: 532299

The injured employee was training another employee on how to operate a forklift and pick orders. The injured employee stepped between the forklift and a rack beam before the employee driving the forklift came to a complete stop. The employee driving the forklift turned to straighten out the forklift, at which time the injured employee became pinned between the forklift and the rack beam, suffering a broken bone in the shoulder area, broken ribs, and a facial cut.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate