Incident date: 2019-12-05
NAICS industry code: 531120

An employee was working in a trim picking aisle at a steel plant. She was performing a cycle count for a stand-up bin of ridge caps. As she counted the pieces she was leaning the ridge caps against her shoulder. Eventually, the weight of the stack of ridge caps pushed her back and she fell to the floor with the stack on top of her. She suffered an abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate