Incident date: 2023-09-07
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was covering a bucket hoist on a work truck. He was pulling a string to tighten the cover when the string broke and he fell from the work truck platform. He struck his right leg on a vehicle parked next to the work truck and sustained a fractured tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate