Incident date: 2024-09-19
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee drove a truck with a roll-off container into the yard. They got out of the truck and released the safety chain on the roll-off container in order to unload it, but ammunition containers located inside the roll-off container had shifted during transit. When the employee undid the safety chain, a pallet of ammunition containers fell out of the roll-off container and crushed the employee, resulting in several broken ribs, a broken arm and clavicle, and a punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Multiple internal chest locations
severity: moderate