Incident date: 2020-04-02
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee opened the trailer door of a truck that had just arrived. A double-stacked pallet inside the truck had become unstable, and its weight pushed the door open very quickly. The employee was knocked to the floor between the truck and the dock plate; the pallet then fell from the trailer onto the employee's right knee. The employee suffered a broken right tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate