Accident Report Detail

Accident: 141717.015 - Employee Suffers Multiple Injuries When Struck By Falling Cr

**Accident: 141717.015 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 12/01/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1567394.015	12/08/2021		Walmart, Inc.

At 3:30 p.m. on December 1, 2021, an employee was picking crates of meat for del ivery from pallets under a racking system. While the employee was picking the or der, a coworker on the other side of the rack nudged the pallet directly above t he employee causing an unsecured crate to fall. The employee was hospitalized to treat a scalp laceration, an ankle fracture, and a fractured cervical vertebra.

Keywords: ankle, blunt force, blunt force trauma, crate, falling object, fracture, head, laceration, order-picker , picking an order, struck by, unsecured, vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature
1	1567394.015	31	M	Hospitalized injury

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