Incident date: 2021-10-27
NAICS industry code: 423330

On October 27, 2021, two employees were assembling a shelving unit with a co-worker. A boom attachment on the top shelf of the racking fell down as the two employees were pulling on the crossbar to lower one of the shelves in the middle of the rack. The boom fell and hit the crossbar, jamming it in an employee's left collar bone and chest. The cross bar then fell and landed on the other employee's feet, resulting in a fracture and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate