Incident date: 2021-08-19
NAICS industry code: 336399

On August 19, 2021, an employee was driving a reach truck in a warehouse area. As he went around a corner, the truck ran into another, parked truck with an empty pallet on its forks. The forks of the moving truck shattered the pallet. When the pallet broke apart, it struck the employee's legs causing a laceration on the left leg and a fracture to the right leg that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate