Incident date: 2015-09-13
NAICS industry code: 441310

An employee was being lifted on a pallet with a forklift when the pallet broke and the employee fell approximately 8-10 feet to the concrete below. The employee suffered a brain bleed, fractured eye socket, broken wrist and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate