Incident date: 2016-04-26
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was making deliveries from a flatbed trailer. As he was climbing down the attached ladder, a weld broke and he fell backward onto the hard surface of the lot, lacerating his head and left ear and fracturing his spine. He was hospitalized overnight.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple back regions
severity: moderate