Incident date: 2023-02-27
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was assisting his co-worker in loading freight into a box truck. As the liftgate was raised with the freight and pallet jack on it, the liftgate dropped about one foot, causing the freight to fall on top of the employee who was hospitalized for multiple spine and rib fractures, lung perforations, and a knee dislocation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate