Incident date: 2016-01-05
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee was loading chickens from a chicken farm onto transportation trucks. The employee was pulling a full cart of chickens down the aisle inside the chicken house. As the cart rolled over a section of the steel grating floor, the section became dislodged and fell. The employee and cart fell approximately 10 feet through the hole to the ground.  The employee suffered a broken left hand and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate