Incident date: 2022-10-19
NAICS industry code: 326220

An employee was assembling orders while driving a forklift. While she was placing parts on a pallet, she turned around and fell backward and horizontally approximately 6 feet and struck her head on the lower level of the shelving rack. The employee sustained a fractured elbow, lacerations to the head, and brain bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate