Incident date: 2020-03-04
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee was backing up a motorized pallet jack. The employee started to step off the pallet jack while it was still moving backwards and her right leg was pinned between the pallet jack and a floor scale. The employee sustained two broken bones in the lower right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate