Incident date: 2023-02-07
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was driving a standing electric pallet jack out of a truck trailer. A wheel on the pallet jack had gone flat, and it became stuck on the dock plate. The employee fell off the pallet jack onto the dock plate, suffering a broken left femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate