Incident date: 2015-02-24
NAICS industry code: 332996

On 2/24/2015, at approximately 2:00 PM, an employee was injured while changing a tire on a large forklift in the forklift maintenance shop.  A smaller forklift was being used to lift the tire into position. The employee was holding the tire in place when the smaller forklift ran over his leg.  Incident resulted in broken bones in the lower right leg.  Injured employee was taken to the hospital and received surgery at approximately 7:00 PM.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate