Incident date: 2024-09-25
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee (employee 1) was sitting on a stack of wooden pallets waiting for his shift to start with a stack of plastic pallets next to him. Another employee (employee 2) used a forklift to lift the stack of pallets next to employee 1, and three loose pallets slid off the forklift and struck employee 1 in the head, resulting in lacerations to the left side of his head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Head  unspecified
severity: moderate