Incident date: 2024-10-01
NAICS industry code: 238220

After making a repair to sprinkler piping, an employee was being lowered to the ground via a forklift. They fell approximately 15 feet, struck the mast of the forklift and a cotton bale, and then fell to the warehouse floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their face, left wrist, and left femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate