Incident date: 2016-08-15
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was talking to a coworker on the west side of the drive aisle. After finishing the conversation, the employee crossed back over to the east side of the drive aisle and was struck by a fork truck driving forward with a single material container. The employee was knocked to the ground and was struck a second time when the material container slid off the forks. The employee suffered a right thumb fracture, right tibia fracture, and lower leg scratch.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate