Incident date: 2023-04-25
NAICS industry code: 335211

An employee was operating a gantry crane to move pallets of sheet metal when the bottom of the wooden pallet released from the crane and swung toward the employee. The employee was struck on the left leg and sustained a fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate