Incident date: 2025-03-18
NAICS industry code: 423310

On March 18, 2025, two employees were preparing to load materials onto a cart. A third employee used a forklift to pick up a wheeled cart and position it near a pallet of materials for the other employees to load. The employees were removing protective wrapping from the pallet when the forklift rolled forward toward the pallet and one of its forks struck an employee's lower leg. The employee s leg was lacerated and they were hospitalized.

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: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate