Incident date: 2019-09-06
NAICS industry code: 812332

An employee was pushing a cart full of garments through a doorway. The employee then transitioned to the front of the cart to continue pulling it. As the walkway began to slope downwards, the cart caught the employee s leg against a pallet of quick-dry cement. The employee was hospitalized with a broken tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate