Incident date: 2023-04-14
NAICS industry code: 237130

On April 14, 2023, four employees were working at the company yard removing 50-foot, 3,000-pound signal poles. One employee was using a forklift to remove signal poles from the trailer when a pole fell off the forklift and landed on an employee that was working on the ground. The injured employee was hospitalized for bilateral leg fractures and a dislocated shoulder and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate