Incident date: 2024-06-01
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was pulling a bulk-bag of peanuts weighing approximately 1,700 pounds using a forklift when another bulk-bag destabilized and fell on the cage of the forklift. The employee jumped from the forklift and when the bulk-bag broke open it rolled and landed on him, pushing his face to the floor. The employee sustained fractures to his skull, nose, maxilla, and orbital bone, as well as a facial laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle struck by falling or flying object(s), nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple regions of the head
severity: moderate