Incident date: 2018-12-08
NAICS industry code: 561311

An employee was moving filing cabinets during hurricane cleanup at a job site. A second employee was moving filing cabinets that were on a dolly. The filing cabinets on the dolly tipped over and fell onto the first employee pinning him against a wall and fracturing his left leg. The injured employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate