Incident date: 2023-07-05
NAICS industry code: 322291

An employee was packing and stacking boxes onto a pallet. As the employee walked past the machine, her foot was caught on a guard, causing her to trip and fall to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a bruised hip and leg, as well as a vertebral fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floor, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate