Incident date: 2017-12-03
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was helping to free a stuck pallet from the forks of a hand truck. She stepped up onto the pallet to use her weight to hold the pallet down. A second employee pulled on the hand truck and the momentum caused the employee to lose her balance and fall, injuring her hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate