Incident date: 2022-10-17
NAICS industry code: 311999

On October 17, 2022, an employee was replacing a battery in a portable cooler, about 6 feet high by 3 feet wide by 3 feet deep. Another cooler of the same kind was being moved on a powered pallet jack. It fell off the pallet jack and struck the employee's lower left leg, breaking it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate