Incident date: 2017-05-08
NAICS industry code: 424810

An employee was walking in an aisle near a four-way intersection in a warehouse. While he was searching for product on the industrial storage racks, he stepped backward and into forklift traffic (four-way intersection). An electric-powered sit-down forklift ran over and fractured his left foot, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate