Incident date: 2019-03-22
NAICS industry code: 326199

A window assembler was setting completed mulled windows (about 6 feet wide and 8 feet high) onto the shipping cart (4 feet deep and 8 feet long). When he went to maneuver the cart containing the seven mulled windows to set more windows, some of the windows fell off the cart and onto him. He was hospitalized for a spinal cord injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Windows, openings
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate