Incident date: 2019-08-08
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was bending down into a receiving bin retrieving boxes when an empty box slid down the chute and hit the employee in the back of the head. The employee was hospitalized with swelling of an arterial vessel.

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: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate