Incident date: 2018-03-21
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was moving a pallet of toilet paper with a stand-up forklift when the employee's right leg was crushed between the frame of the stand-up forklift and the steel upright post of a rack system. The employee's right leg broke below the knee, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate