Incident date: 2018-04-16
NAICS industry code: 326199

Two employees were unloading a box from the back of a truck. One employee was spotting and the other was on the forklift. The box became unstable and fell off the forklift striking the spotter as it fell. The box hit him in the hip area and pinned him underneath. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate