Incident date: 2020-09-15
NAICS industry code: 424410

A warehouse worker was attempting to move a food assembly machine off a broken pallet. The machine began to fall over and it fell onto his right hand as he tried to catch it. The employee sustained three fractures and two lacerations to the right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate