Incident date: 2017-02-22
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee who was driving an unloaded stand-up forklift turned down an aisle. To avoid hitting an unoccupied forklift, he quickly turned the forklift and placed his right hand out to brace himself. His right hand struck the non-moving, unoccupied forklift, fracturing his wrist and the area between his index finger and thumb. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and wrist(s)
severity: moderate