Incident date: 2024-06-24
NAICS industry code: 484122

An employee was using a pallet jack to unload freight on a residential street. As he maneuvered the palletized freight to the trailer's liftgate, the pallet jack slid and made him lose his balance. The employee fell approximately 4 feet from the liftgate to the asphalt pavement below and sustained broken bones in his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate