Incident date: 2021-10-28
NAICS industry code: 327420

An employee was standing on top of a wooden skid, bending over and pulling up on plastic straps wrapped around a bundle of cardboard (so that a forklift could slide its forks under the bundle. The straps snapped and the employee fell backward onto the concrete floor. He suffered a compression fracture to a lower-back vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate