Incident date: 2017-12-06
NAICS industry code: 236220

On December 6, 2017, at 7:30 a.m., an employee was unloading a lumber order at the front of a construction site with a truck-mounted forklift when he hit an irregularity in the ground surface. The forklift then pitched forward, slamming his forehead into the rollover protection structure cage and rocking him back into the seat. He received a forehead laceration and fractured vertebrae, requiring hospitalization and surgery. A seatbelt and hardhat were not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate