Incident date: 2016-02-04
NAICS industry code: 448190

On February 4, 2016, at approximately 4:00pm, an employee was operating a Ryder pallet jack in a 9'10" wide aisle way.  He passed a second employee operating another pallet jack in the opposite direction.  The load of pallets on the second employee's pallet jack struck a guardrail causing a pallet to fall onto the employee and lacerate his right calf.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate