An employee was operating a rider pallet jack when it struck a stand-up forklift. The forks struck both of the employee's ankles, resulting in hospitalization.
An employee was using an electric jack to load a pallet onto a truck when he was struck from behind by a forklift, resulting in a laceration to his right leg.
On August 30, 2025, an employee was operating an electric double-pallet jack. He was coming out of the new extension through the separation curtains when his pallet jack struck an electric forklift. The forklift landed on the employee's right foot, fracturing the big toe and second toe.
Two forklift drivers were stopped next to each other and were talking. The injured employee leaned out of their forklift as the other forklift was leaving and they became pinned between the two forklifts. The injured employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib and a lacerated lung.
An employee was operating a forklift when it collided with another forklift at an intersection. The employee suffered a broken lower right leg from a rack of battery plates on the forks of the other truck.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 423610)
An employee was cutting wire when his gloved left hand got pulled into the counter on the wire machine resulting in amputation of his left little finger and a laceration to his right ring finger.
An employee reached under a raised truck to pull on the spare tire when the jack slipped, causing their hand to be caught between the fallen truck and the spare tire. The employee was hospitalized with a severe injury to the right hand.
An employee was replacing a hydraulic cylinder on a mini-excavator. The employee was positioning the machine while it was in a trailer when their right leg became pinned between a track and the trailer, resulting in severe lacerations to the lower leg.
An employee was using an 8-foot folding ladder to retrieve a 250-foot coil of wrapped wire on a shelf. The employee dropped the wire which struck the ladder, causing the employee to fall from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a right knee fracture, and a rib fracture.
Four employees were moving a wooden spool of fiber-optic cable fiber when the injured employee slipped and fell, twisting his ankle. The employee suffered three fractures to his ankle.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.