Incident date: 2025-08-25
NAICS industry code: 443141

An employee was using a hand truck to load a refrigerator onto a box truck. The refrigerator was set down near the back of the truck and the wheel of the hand truck became stuck in the box truck. When the wheel dislodged, the hand truck and the refrigerator fell on the employee's left arm resulting in injury from the hand to the elbow, including tendon damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate