Incident date: 2022-12-22
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was using a pallet jack to move product from a truck to a customer location. A box on the top of the pallet shifted while the pallet was going over the bump of a dock plate and fell on the employee s head. Afterward, the employee experienced numbness in their limbs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Numbness-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate