Incident date: 2023-10-27
NAICS industry code: 311920

On October 27, 2023, an employee was getting onto a forklift to diagnose a computer problem when a forklift at the exit side of flow racking pushed a pallet into the rack. This caused a pallet of corrugated boxes at the other end to fall approximately 15 feet and strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the ankle, rib, and potentially his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate