Accident Report Detail

Accident: 201144144 - Employee Injured By Falling Boxes

**Accident: 201144144 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 04/02/2003**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
305350167	04/15/2003	5112	Office Depot

On April 2, 2003, as Employee #1, a delivery service representative of Office Depot, was turning a pallet jack loaded with a pallet of boxes inside a truck trailer when several boxes started to fall. He tried to keep the boxes from falling, but was unsuccessful. The falling boxes struck him, fracturing his left wrist and left ankle.

Keywords: fracture, palletized cargo, truck, pallet, struck by, falling object, jack, ankle, wrist

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	305350167			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Freight, stock and material handlers, n.e.c.

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