Incident date: 2024-04-23
NAICS industry code: 423110

A tow truck driver was standing on a tool box on the top deck of his four-car tow truck. While releasing a ratchet strap off the passenger tire of a vehicle, the winch slipped and the tire rolled into the back of his head and onto the lower deck. He sustained facial lacerations and other head injuries, as well as two cracked vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders  unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  unspecified
severity: moderate