Incident date: 2021-01-13
NAICS industry code: 311911

An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate