Incident date: 2020-04-02
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee was standing on a pallet that a forklift operator had lifted approximately 10 feet in the air to remove an exhaust pipe. The employee fell from the pallet while attempting to remove the exhaust pipe 
and struck his left wrist on a water pipe as he fell to the floor. He suffered a severe fracture of his left wrist resulting in hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate