Incident date: 2023-06-07
NAICS industry code: 484110

Two employees had just completed attaching lift straps to a 6,000-pound steel C-channel bundle and 20-foot spreader bar and had connected it to a 45-ton forklift. As the forklift began to lift the load, the C-channel bundle shifted and the injured employee was caught between the bundle and the wall of the gondola train car from which the load was being removed. The employee sustained a possible pelvis fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Pelvis
severity: moderate