Incident date: 2025-02-20
NAICS industry code: 311824

An employee got off a work platform to move empty pallets off the platform and onto the floor while a forklift driver was operating directly across from them and putting pallets up on an opposite platform. The forklift struck the employee as he was bringing down a pallet horizontally. The employee was pinned between the forklift and pallet, causing traumatic rhabdomyolysis to the employee's upper left thigh. The employee was hospitalized.

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: Other traumatic injuries  n.e.c.
code_body: title: Body systems and other part(s) of body
severity: moderate