Incident date: 2022-10-20
NAICS industry code: 484121

On October 21, 2022, an employee was loading freight into a truck after two shipments had already been loaded into the trailer. The employee adjusted the height of the deck bars with the palletized skid on top. The deck bar fell, causing the skid to fall and land on the employee and knock him to the ground. He sustained a nose fracture and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate