Incident date: 2023-02-20
NAICS industry code: 333249

An employee was moving a 2,500-pound stenciling machine into a lab using a manual pallet jack. As he was pushing it through the door it became jammed. The employee pushed it through the door and the stencil machine fell onto him, fracturing his femur. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate