Incident date: 2019-03-29
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was working from a scissor lift, dismantling pallet stacks. The racks collapsed and knocked the scissor lift to the ground. The employee suffered a head laceration, a fractured elbow, a left hand contusion, a laceration to the right hand, broken ribs, a partially collapsed left lung, and a ruptured spleen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate