Incident date: 2022-08-11
NAICS industry code: 311999

A temporary employee was hosing and washing down a warehouse floor with water/soap and sanitizer. He tripped on a metal strip attached to the docking floor plate, slipped on the mix of water and soap, fell on his back, and slid off the dock. He suffered a bleeding wound to the back of his head, as well as a back injury. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate