Incident date: 2022-01-18
NAICS industry code: 221114

An employee was lifting a 50-pound photovoltaic (PV) panel from a horizontal stack of PV panels on a pallet on the ground. The next panel in the stack tipped forward and hit the employee below the left kneecap, breaking the employee's lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Electric parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate