Incident date: 2022-12-16
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was pulling a flat cart loaded with material from a jobsite. When he reached the ramp to access the lower level of the dock, the material's weight shifted forward and the cart pinned the employee against a wall at the bottom of the ramp. The employee sustained three transverse processes fractures and a laceration of the nose and the back of the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate