Incident date: 2020-12-16
NAICS industry code: 541611

An employee was driving a forklift with an attached personnel cage. The blades contacted a permanent railroad track sunk into the pavement; the forklift stopped abruptly and the employee struck the windshield and steering wheel.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate