Incident date: 2017-12-07
NAICS industry code: 423820

On December 7, 2017, at approximately 3:30 PM, an employee was taking parts off a combine and placing them in a pallet box when the employee stepped down into a pallet box and fell 6 feet to the ground. The employee fractured the transverse L1 vertebra, requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate