Incident date: 2020-02-28
NAICS industry code: 336370

An employee was loading two empty containers onto a forklift. They became tangled, and the employee left the forklift to straighten the load. One of the containers fell and struck the employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Containers, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate