Incident date: 2025-05-21
NAICS industry code: 493190

An employee was beginning to unload a pallet of mini-excavator buckets (weighing approximately 800 pounds each) and was positioned in front of the pallet. When the employee cut the metal banding that went around the buckets, one bucket fell forward onto their right leg and fractured it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate