Incident date: 2023-01-18
NAICS industry code: 424470

An employee was walking in the warehouse with a driver jack. Another pallet jack operator came into the area and backed into the injured employee. The pallet jack that the injured employee was walking with ran over his right foot and he sustained a toe and ankle fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
severity: moderate