Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was sitting on a maintenance sweeper scrubber, training another employee on a reach truck, when the employee was struck by a pallet that was released from the pallet return. The injured employee suffered a skull fracture.

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