Incident date: 2020-09-22
NAICS industry code: 453310

An employee was using a pallet jack to unload boxes of furniture from a trailer. A box of furniture was sitting on a pallet that was partially shattered. As the pallet was pulled, it completely shattered causing the furniture to fall onto the employee. The employee suffered displaced fractures to both bones in the right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pallet jack-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate