Incident date: 2023-02-16
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was preparing to offload a trailer that was backing up to a dock. As the employee opened the trailer doors, a 300- to 400-pound steel rack containing parts fell onto the employee, pinning him to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a pulmonary contusion to the right upper lobe and fractures to the T12, L1, and L2 vertebrae of the thoracic and lumbar spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple back regions
severity: moderate