Incident date: 2022-04-07
NAICS industry code: 722513

An employee was pulling a cooler cart onto a trailer's liftgate when the cart trapped his foot against the lip of the liftgate ramp. The liftgate was in the elevated position and the employee fell backward resulting in a open fracture to his right lower leg. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate