Incident date: 2019-07-19
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was going to hammer protruding nails into a wall in preparation to take down shelving. The nails were more than 10 feet above the ground. The employee was standing on a wooden pallet which was raised on the forks of a forklift when the pallet failed. The employee lost balance and fell more than 10 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a broken left ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate