Incident date: 2024-06-11
NAICS industry code: 484230

Employees were loading and unloading a trailer. The injured worker was stacking boxes that came loose from a pallet on the trailer onto an empty one just outside the trailer entrance. Another pallet of freight that contained boxes of merchandise fell on top of him. The employee sustained five broken ribs and a laceration above the eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate