Incident date: 2021-12-07
NAICS industry code: 335312

An employee walked to the truck dock to access the back of his freight truck when his foot caught the edge of a pallet with a battery on it, causing him to trip and fall across the battery on the pallet. The employee suffered five broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate