Incident date: 2017-07-12
NAICS industry code: 484121

The employee was moving a pallet of freight with a pallet jack onto the lift gate. It began raining and the employee slipped and lost control of the pallet jack causing one of the plastic totes on the pallet to come off and strike the employee resulting in rib fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate