Incident date: 2021-08-17
NAICS industry code: 484110

On August 17, 2021, an employee was inside a trailer that his truck had just backed up to a loading dock. As he tried to straighten a banded load of cardboard, the band snapped and the load fell, knocking him into the side of the trailer. He suffered head lacerations and a dislocated shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate