Incident date: 2022-10-11
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was delivering groceries to a store. When he arrived, the employee opened the trailer door and noticed that the load in the truck had shifted. The employee began to loosen the straps on the boxes. As the straps came loose, the cardboard boxes fell and struck the employee in the head. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate