Incident date: 2024-09-16
NAICS industry code: 493110

Employees were conducting inventory in the rail room. A forklift operator had moved four pallets of boxes into a storage location (bulk stacking) and pulled away. The injured employee entered this location to perform cycle counting/inventory and the stack of pallets fell forward, landing on the employee's right leg and back. The employee was hospitalized for a compound fracture to his right leg that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collapse, engulfment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Variable restraint containers  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate