Incident date: 2016-03-21
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was picking up freight and on the dock. As he bent over to unlock his truck door, a cable broke on the raised roller door over head, causing the door to drop suddenly and strike the employee in the back. The employee was wedged between the roller door and the truck door, suffering a broken vertebra, a few broken ribs, and a bruised right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Garage doors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate