Incident date: 2018-02-08
NAICS industry code: 493130

An employee was operating a forklift to load cotton bales onto a cotton bale truck. As he was exiting the warehouse, he hit a hole in the ground, causing the forklift to tip. Thinking the forklift was going to flip over, he tried to jump off and broke his right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate