Incident date: 2023-12-04
NAICS industry code: 311411

The injured employee entered the first level of gravity-feed racking in a cold room to free a stuck pallet of product. A forklift operator used another pallet to free the stuck pallet from the feed side of the lane. All the other pallets in the lane then moved forward, pinching the injured employee's ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate