Incident date: 2016-07-20
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee operating an electric pallet jack was rounding an aisle and became pinned between the pallet jack handle and a fixed storage rack, sustaining five broken ribs. The injured employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate