Incident date: 2015-10-01
NAICS industry code: 561320

On Thursday October 1, 2015, at the Suncast Distribution Center in Montgomery, Illinois, an employee was bent over working. Coworkers nearby were manually breaking down double-stacked pallets with boxed products. The last box (weighing 208 pounds) on the top of a double-stacked pallet shifted and fell onto the employee from overhead. The employee suffered a closed fracture to the pelvis, femoral vein damage, a pelvic hematoma, and a lower body injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple pelvic region locations
severity: moderate