Incident date: 2015-12-14
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee and a coworker were guiding an electrical cabinet carried by a forklift into a storage unit. They noticed the electrical cabinet was too tall for the storage unit, so they repositioned the electrical cabinet to its side. While moving the repositioned electrical cabinet, a backboard on the pallet broke, allowing the cabinet to fall. The injured employee tried to catch the electrical cabinet, fracturing his right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Cases, cabinets, racks, shelves, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate