Incident date: 2025-08-11
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack, delivering pallets of groceries to a store. The employee was walking backward when her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and a video pole, resulting in lacerations and fractures to her ankle and heel. She was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Non-riding pallet jack
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
severity: moderate