Incident date: 2019-08-23
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee was unloading a truck at the loading dock when the employee fell backwards off the dock to a lower level, striking his head on concrete. He sustained a head laceration requiring stitches, and blood on the brain. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate