Incident date: 2025-07-11
NAICS industry code: 484121

The driver of a flatbed truck was completing a freight delivery of oriented strand board (OSB) to the consignee. He was standing on the ground while rolling up load securement straps on the driver's side of the trailer. A forklift was off-loading a stack of OSB packs from the passenger side when the top pack shifted and fell from the forklift, striking the truck driver s lower legs. The driver sustained fractures to both lower legs and lacerations to the lower right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate