Incident date: 2016-11-10
NAICS industry code: 493130

An employee was "locating" cotton bales (scanning bar codes) weighing 480 pounds when the bale(s) fell and struck him. He lost consciousness and sustained a broken leg, back injury, and laceration on top of his head from ear to ear. He required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate