Incident date: 2019-12-02
NAICS industry code: 444110

An employee was acting as a spotter for a forklift operator that was moving pallets with bags of concrete. The operator hit the brakes as the exposed employee was in front of the load. Bags of concrete fell from the pallets and struck the employee, who suffered a hip fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bags, sacks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate