Incident date: 2019-02-19
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was trying to retrieve a box behind some metal fence pickets. The employee was standing on a pallet between the pickets when a bundle of pickets (weighing about 1,020 pounds) toppled over on the employee's ankle, trapping it between bundles of pickets and causing multiple breaks.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate