Incident date: 2017-04-27
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was operating a forklift to move drums on a pallet. He dismounted the forklift to adjust two drums that had become off-center on the pallet when a drum fell and struck his leg, resulting in his hospitalization for a broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate