Incident date: 2023-09-28
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was opening cases near a forklift that was loading 700-pound totes of frozen meat into a tote dump. A tote slipped off the forks and fell onto the employee, causing them to sustain fractures to the tibia, fibula, nasal bone, axis, and lower/middle back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate