Incident date: 2017-09-03
NAICS industry code: 493120

On September 3, 2017, an employee was driving a pallet jack down an aisle. At the same time, a coworker was dropping a plastic pallet onto another pallet. The plastic pallet bounced up and struck the backrest of the employee's pallet jack, then pinned his lower right leg/ankle between his jack platform and the pallet. His right ankle broke.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate