Incident date: 2018-10-11
NAICS industry code: 493120

An employee was operating a stand-up counterbalanced forklift and was attempting to push a stack of empty pallets using the rear, passenger compartment side of the forklift. As the pallets were being pushed, they became lodged between a rack and the forklift, causing the wooden pallets to break. Pieces of a broken pallet entered the passenger compartment of the forklift and struck the employee in the left leg, fracturing his tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate