Incident date: 2021-09-09
NAICS industry code: 424480

An employee was stepping onto an electric pallet jack when it activated, jerked, and pinned his leg against a stack of pallets. He suffered a compound fracture to the lower left leg, at the ankle, and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate