Incident date: 2016-10-25
NAICS industry code: 562998

A temporary employee was inspecting paper bales as they left the baler. He was hand picking plastic "fuzz" from the finished bales. Bales were stacked 2 high in the building. A row near the employee fell. The employee was found under a fallen paper bale and hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate