Employee's Foot Is Crushed Between Pallet Jack and Stairs

An employee was in the order staging area operating a Hyster electric pallet jack. After obtaining the pallet jack in the order staging area, the employee drove it to a stack of bread that needed to be moved to the order selector lines. When he had delivered the bread, the employee drove the pallet jack back to where he had obtained it near a set of stairs spanning a conveyor system in the order staging area. As the employee approached the stairs, he let the handle of the pallet jack move upward to […]