Incident date: 2023-04-22
NAICS industry code: 336120

An employee was operating a forklift with a tow strap looped around his shoulder. The tow strap was caught by the tire of the moving fork truck, and the employee fell out of the fork truck to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a broken femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate