Incident date: 2024-04-07
NAICS industry code: 452210

An employee was pushing a stack of pallets on a pallet jack into an empty trailer when the pallets on top of the stack fell off and struck them in the head. They sustained lacerations to the head and a sore neck. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Head  unspecified
severity: moderate