Incident date: 2024-02-23
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was using a stand-up skid loader to move a roll of sod. She was moving the machine over a parking lot curb when she was thrown from the machine to the ground, landing on her back. The employee suffered a spinal cord injury and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  fall or jump from moving vehicle
code_source: title: Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Spinal cord injuries, paralysis  unspecified
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate