Incident date: 2023-10-09
NAICS industry code: 323120

An employee was using an extended pallet jack to move rolls of paper on racks in the warehouse. He was standing on the first level of the racking system when his foot slipped and he fell 4 feet to the ground landing on his right side. He was hospitalized with fractures to his right collar bone and several ribs on the right side. The employee also struck his head on the ground, scraped his right knee, and his left middle and ring fingers were cut by a nylon band that he grabbed as he fell. The cuts required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate