Incident date: 2020-01-17
NAICS industry code: 532120

On January 17, 2020, at approximately 6:10 p.m., an employee who was operating a forklift came to a stop and exited his vehicle. An RF scanner on the vehicle fell onto the throttle, causing the forklift to accelerate in the employee's direction. He fell to the floor and his left leg was pinned underneath the forklift, resulting in a compound fracture to the left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate