Incident date: 2016-01-28
NAICS industry code: 332999

The employee was helping to load a truck.  He was walking and looking at a scanner at the same time a forklift truck was backing up. The back-up alarm and light were working.  Because he was looking at the scanner, he did not see the forklift truck backing up. The right rear tire of the forklift truck ran over his left foot.  The employee was wearing steel toe shoes.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate