Incident date: 2019-08-19
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee was operating a telehandler forklift while wearing his personal fall protection harness. When he went to back up, a lanyard that was hanging down and not attached to the harness caught under the front wheel and jerked him violently in his seat. He was wearing his seat belt at the time. He struck the metal guards on the side seat of the forklift and fractured vertebrae in his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate