Incident date: 2017-08-07
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee came to pick up a stack of recycled cardboard bales from a customer when the top bale fell and struck the employee, who suffered a fractured hip and fractured L1 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate