Incident date: 2022-06-27
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was driving a reach truck. As he backed up, the truck hit a pallet and pushed it into a building column. The pallet broke and a board from it hit the employee's left ankle, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate