Incident date: 2024-09-09
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was traveling through a warehouse with a pallet jack. The pallet jack slipped on a substance on the floor and ran into a horizontal rack beam. The employee's foot was caught between the beam and the pallet jack, and he suffered a laceration to the ankle as well as tendon/ligament damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack riding
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate