Incident date: 2018-02-09
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was transporting a pallet of plastic with a forklift when a roll of plastic fell off. The employee stopped the forklift and was trying to stop the plastic from rolling away when his left leg was pinned between the roll of plastic and a metal post resulting in a fractured leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate