Incident date: 2017-09-21
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was moving a product rack weighing approximately 1,000 pounds out of a smokehouse when the product rack fell and struck him in the face, resulting in a laceration and fracture. A connecting rail was not used to move the rack from the smokehouse rail to the hallway rail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate