Incident date: 2025-02-24
NAICS industry code: 493120

The injured employee was selecting food product from a pick slot while standing between her cart and the pick slot. Another employee approached on his tow tractor; he went to turn his tow tractor around so the hitch could attach to his cart, which was next to the injured employee's cart. While the tow tractor was turning around, it struck the injured employee's cart. The injured employee was struck by the hitch of her cart and was pinned between her cart and the pick slot. The employee sustained a severe laceration to her left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Industrial carrier  powered
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate