Incident date: 2019-05-17
NAICS industry code: 444110

The injured employee was acting as a spotter in the parking lot for a lift operator that was loading a pallet of mulch into a customer's vehicle. The lift operator was positioning the load when the pallet of mulch shifted, toppled over, and struck the injured employee on the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. The employee struck his head on the pavement and was hospitalized for head trauma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate