Incident date: 2022-05-18
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was on the forks of a forklift, about 10 to 15 feet above a concrete floor, hanging pipes on a cotton gin. He fell head first to the floor and suffered multiple brain bleeds, multiple skull and facial fractures, and a broken upper back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate