Incident date: 2023-07-07
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was operating a pallet jack and drove to the truck yard to get tie-down straps out of another trailer. He placed the straps on top on the battery box of the pallet jack. A tie-down strap fell into the steering control box of the pallet jack, causing the vehicle handle to lock up. The employee was pinned between the jack and the trailer, resulting in a pelvis fracture.

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: Pelvis
severity: moderate