Incident date: 2025-06-17
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was adjusting self-dumping steel hopper to get it to latch onto the tines of a forklift. He rocked the hopper back and forth to dump. The hopper slid off the forklift and fell about 2-3 feet down onto his legs. The employee sustained a cut on his head, a bruise on his face, and both his ankles were fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine attachments  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate