Incident date: 2023-09-11
NAICS industry code: 424340

At approximately 7:30 AM, a temporary employee was on an order selector, pulling boxes from racks. He was reaching for a carton in the back of the pallet location when he lost his footing, slipped, and fell approximately 20 feet from the rack to the warehouse floor. The employee was wearing a harness but it was not connected to the tether at the time of the fall. The employee sustained injury to their head and arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate