Incident date: 2020-01-09
NAICS industry code: 493120

The injured employee was working in a warehouse and was using a motorized double jack. A nearby powered industrial truck (PIT) was lifting a pallet of boxes that contained frozen meat and weighed 60 pounds each. The PIT struck a cross-member of a storage rack. The load then shifted and the PIT overturned. The boxes fell off the pallet and struck the injured employee breaking his right tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate