Incident date: 2024-04-29
NAICS industry code: 423730

An employee was operating a powered industrial truck (PIT) to move HVAC products when the PIT contacted an adjacent box. The box of material fell from the rack and into the next aisle over, onto another employee who was walking down the aisle. That employee sustained a fractured lower left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate