Incident date: 2021-04-10
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was unloading a trailer using a forklift. He left the forklift and removed a strap securing freight to the wall on a deck over other freight. One or more of the four beams running from one side of the trailer to the other failed, and the freight fell forward onto him. He suffered a broken fibula and tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate