Incident date: 2020-08-04
NAICS industry code: 424820

An employee was picking cases in a four-deep pallet location with two pallets left in it. As the employee was taking two cases off one of the pallets, their weight pulled the employee off the second level of the modular line. The employee landed on the floor and suffered a broken right wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate