Incident date: 2020-06-15
NAICS industry code: 236210

Two employees were pushing a cart that was fully loaded with drywall sheets (weighting about 600 pounds) when the cart's wheel fell into a hole in the ground. The cart tilted and the drywall sheets fell onto one employee, pushing him backward. He landed on top of another drywall stack and sustained a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Wallboard, drywall, sheetrock
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate