Incident date: 2020-01-21
NAICS industry code: 238990

Employees were processing a pipe on site. A forklift driver lowered the pipe and, believing the forks had cleared the pipe, began to turn the forks to move the pipe. When the pipe started to move, it struck a nearby employee in the left leg. The injured employee suffered leg fractures, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate