Incident date: 2015-04-09
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee was opening the back of a trailer during product unloading when boxes from a pallet that shifted during transport fell on him. The employee sustained a fractured femur and a laceration to the head. The employee was subsequently hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate