Incident date: 2015-12-07
NAICS industry code: 331521

An employee was moving a pallet with a manual pallet jack when a forklift operator struck the employee while making a U-turn. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a possible hip fracture, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Pelvic region, unspecified
severity: moderate