Incident date: 2021-03-15
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was unloading a small bundle of lumber from a truck using a forklift. As he backed away from the truck, the forklift's rear wheel rolled into a curb. The resulting jolt caused the top of the employee's head to strike the forklift's roll-over protective cage. He suffered a laceration to the top of the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Scalp
severity: moderate