Incident date: 2016-04-03
NAICS industry code: 541890

An employee was cleaning a food cart in the back storage part of the store. A forklift operator on the other side of the storage rack was pushing a skid with a cooler but pushed it too far, causing a pallet (weighing approximately 100 pounds) on the other side of the rack to fall on the employee cleaning her cart. She was hospitalized with injuries to her mouth, chest, legs, and feet.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate