Incident date: 2023-12-01
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Multiple leg locations, unspecified
severity: high