Incident date: 2015-03-17
NAICS industry code: 327320

On March 17, 2015, an employee fell off of the fixed ladder on the back of a truck while trying to pull up a 5-gallon bucket of concrete additive. The employee fell backwards, struck another employee standing at the bottom of the ladder, and landed on his right shoulder. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and was admitted to the hospital for a possible broken rib and lung perforation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Cement truck, concrete mixer truck
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate