Incident date: 2023-05-18
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was loading and unloading palletized material with a powered pallet jack. The pallet jack backed up and the employee's leg was crushed between the pallet jack and a bumper/trailer hitch, resulting in fractures to the right ankle and left tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate