Incident date: 2016-08-01
NAICS industry code: 493120

On August 1, 2016, at approximately 10:00 a.m., an employee was driving a stand-up rider forklift at a cold storage facility. As he was turning to exit the freezer, his glove became caught in the steering wheel and he lost control of the forklift. He was thrown from the operators' platform and became pinned between the forklift and a bollard post located at the freezer door opening, fracturing his pelvis.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Pelvis
severity: moderate