Incident date: 2017-07-02
NAICS industry code: 452111

An employee was operating an upright pallet rider and was coming around the corner to pick up a label for a shipment when the pallet rider accelerated. His right leg was then pinned and broken between a shelf's upright support and the pallet rider. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate