Incident date: 2024-10-30
NAICS industry code: 562119

An employee was preparing to dump wood from a roll-off dumpster when a piece of timber fell from the dumpster and struck the employee in the head. The employee sustained a laceration to the scalp and three cracked vertebral discs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Logs
code_nature: title: Disc disorders, herniated disc
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate