Incident date: 2023-08-14
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was walking backward with straps to prepare bundles of lumber when he walked into the path of a moving forklift. The forklift stopped, and the force of stopping caused a bundle of lumber to fall off the forklift and strike the employee. The employee sustained broken ankles.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate