Incident date: 2015-09-22
NAICS industry code: 311813

An employee was unloading merchandise and cutting open a pallet of boxes stacked 7 boxes high. Some of the boxes fell on top of the employee and knocked him 20 feet to the concrete floor. The employee had surgery to repair a broken ankle and lower knee fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and knee(s)
severity: moderate