Incident date: 2023-03-24
NAICS industry code: 488991

On March 24, 2023, at approximately 1:00 PM, an employee was operating a forklift inside a trailer at a loading dock to offload material. A spotter truck began to pull the trailer away from the dock, causing the forklift to fall out of the trailer onto the pavement. The employee was hospitalized for a lower spinal compression injury and a torn muscle in the spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate