Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121723.015 - Employee fractures skull when struck by falling pallets

Accident Summary Nr: 121723.015 -- Report ID: 0728500 -- Event Date: 11/12/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1445218.015	11/14/2019		493110	Dollar Tree

Abstract: At 7:00 p.m. on November 12, 2019, an employee was on a parked scrubber/sweeper under the pallet return area training a new reach truck driver when a coworker released a stack of pallets from the delta level. There was a slip sheet between each of the pallets and two pallets fell and struck the employee on the head. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured skull.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Driver, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Industrial Truck, Pallet, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Skull, Struck By, Training

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1445218.015	60	M	Hospitalized injury

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