Incident date: 2020-02-03
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was struck by a 50-pound bag of onions while trying to free a stuck pallet on rolling racks. He suffered a spinal cord injury that caused paralysis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Fruits, nuts, vegetables
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate