Incident date: 2016-12-29
NAICS industry code: 424460

An employee was unloading a truck using an electric pallet jack. As he was exiting the truck, the dock plate malfunctioned and pinned the employee's foot against the electric pallet jack causing lacerations and fractures to several bones in his right foot.

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: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate