Abstract: At 3:40 p.m. on July 20, 2004, Employee #1 and an inexperienced coworker (who Employee #1 was training), were loading empty, 50-gallon oak wine barrels into tiered storage racks constructed of steel rails. Employee #1 was loading barrels onto a forklift platform and raising them to the desired tier. The coworker was standing on a catwalk unloading the barrels onto the rack rails and rolling them to the back of the rack, one at a time. The sixth barrel on one rack rolled back to the open end of the rack, fell, and struck Employee #1's hand. Employee #1 was hospitalized for treatment of a severely crushed hand, which required microsurgery to correct.