Incident date: 2020-11-02
NAICS industry code: 325320

An employee was kneeling on the floor to remove a castor off of the bottom of the 2.5 gallon capping machine. The machine was sitting on a pallet about to be picked up by a forklift. As the forklift lifted the machine, the machine tilted over and fell onto the employee. The employee sustained a broken ankle, a broken foot, and a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate