Incident date: 2024-04-20
NAICS industry code: 444130

An employee was spotting for a forklift through the back entrance of the garden center. The injured employee unlocked the iron gate to open it when the hinges fell off the gate and it fell on them, resulting in scratches to their face and fractures to their left elbow and right lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Gates
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate