Incident date: 2022-01-25
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was cleaning up spilled polymer from a broken bag. Another bag (weight 1,980 pounds) fell from above and hit the employee, who suffered a broken right ankle and torn ligaments in the left knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bags, sacks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate