Incident date: 2019-11-21
NAICS industry code: 424410

On November 21, 2019, an employee was mounting a center-ride double pallet jack. The pallet jack moved in reverse and the employee's leg was crushed between the pallet jack and a safety post. The employee's leg sustained internal damage that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate