Incident date: 2020-05-06
NAICS industry code: 444110

An employee was standing on a stack of cardboard, labeling and reviewing items to be moved when a stock order picker (equipment) came around the corner. When the employee saw the equipment approaching, she attempted to step down and ensure she was not in a hazardous situation with the equipment. She stepped on the side of a wheeled cart, causing the cart to move, and she lost her balance. She fell and hit her head on the concrete floor, suffering a subdural hematoma that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate