Incident date: 2021-06-24
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee and a co-worker were moving a forklift battery with a pallet jack down a ramp when the battery fell onto the employee's left leg. The employee suffered a fractured tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Battery-vehicle
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate