Incident date: 2017-11-01
NAICS industry code: 332992

An employee was driving an unloaded stand-up forklift down a ramp from the upper section to the lower section of a warehouse when the employee lost control of the forklift and hit the safety railing. The safety railing entered the cab area and hit the employee in the pelvis, fracturing it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Pelvis
severity: moderate