Incident date: 2024-02-02
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was moving a long pallet to a lift gate with an electric pallet jack. While he was maneuvering the pallet jack out from under the skid, it hit him in the abdomen. He took a step back from the impact and then fell off the lift gate, landed on his right side, and hit his head. He suffered broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate