Incident date: 2020-12-14
NAICS industry code: 312111

An employee had parked his electric forklift next to a parked semi-trailer and dismounted the forklift to count stock. He returned to the forklift and as he was climbing up the forklift the accelerator was depressed and his legs were caught between the side of the trailer and the forklift. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the right calf and torn ligaments and a laceration to the left knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate