Incident date: 2025-05-11
NAICS industry code: 493110

The injured employee was sitting in a parked forklift while another forklift was moving two metal tire racks. The top rack was empty and the bottom rack contained tires. As the racks were being lowered to the ground, they fell and the top rack struck the injured employee. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations and a fracture to the left foot, and they required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle struck by falling or flying object(s), nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate