Incident date: 2021-07-15
NAICS industry code: 424410

On 7/15/2021 at 9:00 a.m., an employee was traveling down a warehouse aisle on an electric pallet jack when a forklift struck the pallet jack at an aisle intersection. The employee was pinned to the pallet jack by the palletized materials on the forklift, resulting in leg fractures that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate