Incident date: 2016-12-21
NAICS industry code: 423120

An employee was walking down an aisle in a warehouse. At the same time, a coworker was operating a forklift in the opposite aisle. The forklift pushed some items, causing them to fall from a shelf and strike the employee. He was hospitalized with a compound fracture to his right leg, six cracked right-side ribs, a fractured pelvis, and three broken vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate