Incident date: 2024-12-23
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was assisting a forklift driver with placing a pallet of fabric rolls on top of another pallet of fabric rolls. A pallet of fabric rolls (weighing 20-25 pounds) fell from the forklift onto of the employee. The employee sustained a head laceration and pain to the left side of their body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Head  unspecified
severity: moderate