Incident date: 2024-05-10
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was unloading unprocessed mail equipment from a 52-foot trailer using a forklift. The employee was found with his head pinned between the forklift's left front cage bar and the interior wall of the trailer. He lost consciousness and sustained injuries that included a dislocated clavicle, fractured ribs, scratches to the face and an earring that became imbedded in his neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Event or exposure  unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Trunk and other upper extremities
severity: moderate