Incident date: 2020-01-09
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was unloading a laser machine onto a cart when wind blew fibers off the machine/cart. The employee pressed the brake on the cart, retrieved the fibers, and took them inside the building. When the employee returned for the cart, it was rolling toward cars in the parking lot. The employee chased the cart and ran into a concrete barrier and fell, suffering a fractured right hip and right elbow injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate