Incident date: 2015-03-25
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was guiding a forklift to set a roll of conveyor belting onto a stand on a table.  The stand collapsed when the roll was set, and the employee was catapulted up and off of the table, landing 12 feet away on a concrete floor in a sitting position. He injured his right hip and buttocks and was hospitalized, and later had surgery to correct hip fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Tables, worktables
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate