Incident date: 2024-10-23
NAICS industry code: 332510

An employee was on the ground level, repairing a pallet racking system that was four levels high. The vertical upright beam on the storage rack failed and a wooden pallet with plastic and aluminum parts fell from the top rack, striking the employee. The employee sustained a broken left tibia and fibula and lacerations to their head and right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate