Incident date: 2024-04-30
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee entered a freezer with a pallet jack loaded with product and may have fallen on the same level in the walk-in freezer, striking the back of his head. As he was exiting the freezer about three minutes later, he was unstable from a head injury with intracranial hemorrhage and loss of consciousness. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level  unspecified
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate