Incident date: 2020-05-12
NAICS industry code: 327213

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack that had glass on one side and was empty on the other side. When the pallet jack came to a stop, the glass shifted, came off the rack, and struck the employee, pinning him against another rack of glass. The employee suffered a head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Glass building materials
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate