Incident date: 2018-06-05
NAICS industry code: 424410

An employee was staging product in a 34-degree cooler. He used the platform end of a double pallet truck to move a stack of pallets that were in an area he wanted to use for the staging. While he was pushing the stack of pallets, one of the pallets pushed against a bollard and trapped his leg against the body of the pallet truck, fracturing his tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate