Incident date: 2020-07-13
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using an electric riding pallet jack to unload a trailer when the jack stopped running and the employee fell off. The jack then kept going, striking and pinning the employee to the trailer floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate