Incident date: 2022-05-05
NAICS industry code: 333318

On May 5, 2022, at 8:45 AM, an employee and a trainee were moving a coil of wire with a hoist/crane. The hoisting mechanism contacted a bundle of cardboard boxes on the top shelf of a pallet rack. The bundle of boxes fell to the floor hitting the employee on the back of the head and causing a concussion and fractured C7 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate