Incident date: 2017-01-03
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was using a powered pallet jack (ride on the back style) to pick up orders. The injured employee was walking in front of the PIT, looking backwards, and ran into a stationary stack of materials. The employee operating the PIT was unable to stop the PIT before it struck the injured employee pinning him between the PIT and the stationary materials and breaking the employee's left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate