Incident date: 2022-04-20
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee had just set a wooden pallet down with a powered industrial truck. The truck was backing up when it struck a stack of wooden pallets. One pallet broke and a piece entered the cab of the industrial truck, striking the worker in the back of the left leg.  Wood was embedded in the back of the employee's left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate