Incident date: 2019-11-27
NAICS industry code: 561910

An employee was driving a forklift to unload a stack of 15 pallets at a dock door when he struck a pole/column. The abrupt stop caused him to strike his head on the roll-over protective structure of the forklift, resulting in head and spinal injuries that required hospitalization. A seatbelt was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate