Incident date: 2020-10-05
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was moving super sacks onto racks. The employee was standing on the second level of a rack, approximately 12 feet high, to guide the straps of the super sack onto the forklift blades. The employee stepped onto a board to move closer to the super sack and the board broke. As the employee fell his head hit the racking before landing on a super sack below the racking. The employee was hospitalized for fractured neck vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate