Incident date: 2019-05-23
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was operating a pallet jack when the employee backed up into another driver whose load of pallets then fell onto the employee. The employee sustained a crushed left leg and broken left femur, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate