Incident date: 2015-07-06
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was helping a forklift operator by watching the operator as he pushed a batch of green wood into a dry kiln. The wood was on a metal crate on rail wheels. The employee had the forklift operator stop to check the wood and a 4 x 6 board fell from the top of the stack, which was about 10 to 15 feet in the air, and hit the employee in the head. The employee was wearing a hardhat at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Dimensional lumber: 2x4, 2x3, etc.
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate