Incident date: 2019-09-11
NAICS industry code: 322223

On September 11, 2019, at approximately 10:30 a.m., an employee was dumping a rolling tub of scrap bags when the employee noticed several individual scrap bags remained in the bottom of the scrap tub. The employee reached into the tub to remove the remaining bags. As the employee pushed on the corner of the tub to provide leverage to raise up the scrap tub, the scrap tub tipped sideways, causing the employee to lose balance and fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a right hip fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Floor, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate