Incident date: 2018-05-29
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was driving a stand-up forklift down the aisle of a pallet staging area. The forklift showed an error code and started to slide away from the aisle. The employee's right hand was pinned between the forklift and a rack beam causing a deep laceration that required 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: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate