Incident date: 2025-07-15
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was loading up a stock cart. The employee stepped onto a resting pallet and grabbed a case of water to move onto the stock cart. As they stepped off the pallet, their heel got stuck on a piece of plastic shrink wrap, causing them to trip and fall onto the concrete floor. The employee landed on their hip and required hip surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Hip joint(s)
severity: moderate