Incident date: 2025-03-17
NAICS industry code: 332996

An employee was assisting a forklift driver by attaching the strap to a metal shell belonging to a heat exchanger. The employee was behind the forklift when it reversed and pinned them between the forklift and the metal shell. The employee suffered a laceration to the right thigh that required stitches, as well as fractures to the lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate