Incident date: 2016-05-25
NAICS industry code: 424410

While an employee was operating an order picker to move a stack of empty pallets, some of the pallets got caught on the rack and pushed into the employee's ribs. The employee was hospitalized for treatment of three fractured ribs and a bruised spleen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate