Incident date: 2019-07-08
NAICS industry code: 811310

At 12:30 p.m. on July 8, 2019, an employee was helping supervise the unloading of a truck with a forklift. A package tilted over while the forklift was moving and fell onto the employee. He was hospitalized to treat a head injury (requiring 18 stitches) and a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Packages, parcels
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate