Incident date: 2024-01-03
NAICS industry code: 325411

An employee was manually stacking empty totes on a pallet. The employee stood on a pallet and as they went to get off, their foot got caught in an opening in the pallet. This caused the employee's knee to hit the concrete floor and their head to strike the fork of a nearby electric pallet jack. The employee suffered a broken tibia in the left leg, a 9-centimeter laceration across the forehead, fractures to the bone around the right frontal lobe and right eye socket, as well as brain hemorrhaging.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate