Incident date: 2021-01-18
NAICS industry code: 453998

An employee was helping to load empty 500-gallon water troughs from a forklift onto a customer's flatbed trailer. The water troughs slid from the forklift, fell onto the employee, and knocked him to the ground, resulting in shoulder and back injuries and a spinal cord contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and back
severity: moderate