Incident date: 2017-11-29
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was operating a forklift to pick up a pallet of finished product from a stretch wrapper when the employee lost control of the forklift. The employee's right arm then struck a post guarding the shrink wrapper, fracturing the radius.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate