Incident date: 2024-10-01
NAICS industry code: 811310

Employees were loading a switchgear cabinet into an elevated room with a telehandler when the cabinet started wobbling/swaying. The cabinet fell from the forks of the telehandler and struck an employee that was spotting for the telehandler, resulting in three fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis, and compressed vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Switchboards, panels, fuses
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate