Incident date: 2015-01-12
NAICS industry code: 441110

Employee retrieving parts from a shelf was struck in the head by a part weighing approximately 40 to 50 pounds when the bottom of the box it was stored in gave way. Employee sustained a compression fracture of the vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate