Incident date: 2018-12-18
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was unloading material that was stacked on rolling pallets on the truck. When the employee removed the tie-down strap, the rolling cart struck him and knocked him off the truck and he fell four feet to the pavement below. The employee was hospitalized for a subdermal hematoma to the head, lacerations, fractured ribs and a subdermal hematoma to the abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate