Incident date: 2024-05-02
NAICS industry code: 333992

On May 2, 2024, at approximately 6:46 AM, a 3,000-pound tote was suspended from the forks of a powered industrial truck filling a 55-gallon drum when it slid on the forks and pinned the injured employee against a dumpster. They sustained two broken vertebrae and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bags, sacks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate