Incident date: 2021-03-15
NAICS industry code: 484230

At about 8:00 a.m. on March 15, 2021, an employee was pushing back a curtain for a Conestoga trailer when a forklift dropped a pallet on the employee. The employee suffered cuts, bruises, and a fractured back vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate