KATY, TEXAS—
Academy Sports and Outdoors
Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee was operating a walkie pallet jack to pick up a load when she turned the pallet jack sharply. The pallet jack then increased speed and threw her into a support beam. She was pinned between the pallet jack and the beam, and as she attempted to get un-stuck, she accidentally hit the accelerator, causing the pallet jack to strike her again. She suffered a laceration to the right leg, pelvic fracture, and fracture to the L5 vertebra.
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