Incident date: 2021-11-03
NAICS industry code: 424120

An A&B Business Solutions employee was standing on the forks of a forklift about 12 feet in the air. He stepped off the forks onto a wood pallet, then slipped and fell to the floor. He suffered two broken ribs and a crushed disk in the lower back and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate