Incident date: 2017-11-22
NAICS industry code: 337215

An employee was helping a powered industrial truck move a storage rack when the rack fell and landed on the employee's leg, resulting in an open fracture to the left tibia. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate