Incident date: 2015-10-22
NAICS industry code: 423710

On or about October 22, 2015, at 3:45 pm, a temporary employee was injured when he fell approximately 12 feet from an upper level. The employee attempted to stand on a pallet that was on the forks of an elevated forklift when the pallet broke. He was hospitalized with injuries including broken wrists, ribs, a broken shoulder and a broken cheekbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate