Incident date: 2024-11-03
NAICS industry code: 334419

An employee was moving a large safe weighing approximately 625 lbs. with a dolly that was specially-designed to move the safe. The safe fell from the dolly, struck the ground, fell forward onto the employee, striking their right hip/pelvis area before rolling off the employee onto the floor. The employee sustained a right hip/pelvic fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases, dressers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and hip joint(s)
severity: moderate