Incident date: 2019-10-28
NAICS industry code: 453998

An employee was in a receiving aisle doing merchandising work. At the same time, a forklift two aisles over was moving something when the forklift struck an item. The item fell onto a safe that was double stacked on a pallet. The safe then fell onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate