Incident date: 2024-09-06
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was unloading pallets of product from a trailer when a plastic-wrapped pallet became stuck against the bulkhead of the trailer. The employee was dislodging the pallet when he lost his grip and fell backward, striking his head on the side of the trailer. He then tripped over the forks of a pallet jack and fell to the floor of the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed and pain in his lower back and ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine cabin parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate