Incident date: 2024-12-16
NAICS industry code: 332116

An employee was un-banding metal blanks from pallets. He stepped on a pallet where the boards of the pallet overhung the runners, causing him to lose his footing and fall to the floor. The employee sustained injury to his left hip requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Hip joint(s)
severity: moderate