Incident date: 2016-06-23
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was in an elevator toward the rear of the car when a mason began to enter the elevator with an electric pallet jack that was loaded with a pallet of bricks. The mason lost control of the loaded pallet jack and struck the employee in the stomach, pinning him between the bricks and the rear elevator gate. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate