Incident date: 2021-03-17
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was standing between a forklift and a tilt hoist, trying to reinstall the hoist arm. The fork and boom extension fell and pinned him to the tilt hoist. He suffered a possible skull fracture and a dislodged right ear canal and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate