Incident date: 2024-06-19
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was walking down an aisle pushing a cart when five 900-pound bundles fell. Two bundles struck the employee causing a laceration to the back of the head, three broken ribs, a broken foot, and four broken toes. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate