Incident date: 2022-06-13
NAICS industry code: 452990

An employee was using a manual pallet jack to unload a pallet of blow-in insulation from a truck at the dock. While moving the pallet jack over the lip where the dock meets the dock plate, the employee lost his footing, slipped and hit his head on the concrete ground resulting in a brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate