Incident date: 2022-07-22
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was using a manual pallet jack to pick orders when they were struck by an electric forklift. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the right leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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