Incident date: 2015-06-06
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was helping a tractor trailer driver restack plywood sheets when the skid they were on shifted or tipped over. In the back of the trailer, the plywood shifted and struck the employee, pinning his arm between the plywood sheets and the forward wall of the trailer. He fractured his left humerus and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate