Incident date: 2016-08-23
NAICS industry code: 111411

An employee was walking down a hallway and was struck by a forklift that was moving bales of peat moss. The employee was caught between the peat moss bales and the wall resulting in a fractured rib and a lung hernia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate