Incident date: 2024-02-17
NAICS industry code: 339999

An employee was helping to dislodge a standup forklift that had a wheel stuck in the floor of a container that was being offloaded (the floor had given way). The employee wrapped a tow chain around the mast guard of a counterbalance forklift and hooked the chain to the wheel of the standup forklift. When the standup forklift dislodged and started to travel down the dock plate toward the slower counterbalance forklift, the right fork of the counterbalance forklift entered the cab space of the standup forklift striking the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the left leg below the knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving in same direction
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate