Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 484121

On December 6, 2018, an employee parked a forklift behind a trailer on the loading dock, got off the forklift and was reading a shipping manifest. Another forklift backed out of a trailer and pinned the injured employee between the two forklifts. The employee suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate