Incident date: 2018-05-01
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee used a forklift to stack pallets on a stack and was backing up when he thought he was going to hit a desk and drove forward instead. The floor had condensate and the forklift skidded into his foot, crushing it between the forklift and an angle iron that was installed on the floor. He suffered a fractured talus bone, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate