Incident date: 2024-03-04
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was using a handheld meat hook to pull chilled beef halves from a storage rail onto a transfer rail. The hook slipped out of the meat and the employee stumbled a few steps backward, struck a wall, and came to rest on the floor. He suffered vertebral fractures and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate