Incident date: 2024-10-16
NAICS industry code: 322122

An employee was picking up cardboard debris from the floor below the cardboard recycle conveyor. One of the cardboard bales weighing approximately 1200 pounds fell from the conveyor and struck the employee, resulting in bilateral rib fractures, fractured vertebrae, and a laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate