Incident date: 2022-09-28
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was removing 4-inch by 12-inch wooden tire chocks from a meat processor modular unit. A tire chock was thrown into an electric cart and landed on the gas pedal. The cart struck the employee and pinned him against the bottom frame of the modular unit. The employee was hospitalized for fractures of the ribs, shoulder, and vertebrae as well as a punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Golf cart, personnel transport cart
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate