Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 134351.015 - Employee is killed when crushed by falling cardboard bales

Accident Summary Nr: 134351.015 -- Report ID: 0524200 -- Event Date: 03/26/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1521956.015	03/29/2021		311999	Kerry Ingredients & Flavours, Inc.

Abstract: At 7:58 p.m. on March 26, 2021, Employee #1 was walking across a dock leveler to access the panel to close the outside dock door as a trailer had just left the bay. As the employee walked across the dock leveler, two palleted stacks of baled corrugated cardboard weighing approximately 1,200 pounds each fell, knocking the employee off the dock and to the ground. The bales then fell on top of the employee, pinning him and causing fatal crushing injuries.

Keywords: Crushed, Dock Worker, Fall, Falling Object, Loading Dock, Palletized Cargo, Warehouse

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1521956.015	61	M	Fatality

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