Incident date: 2020-11-10
NAICS industry code: 512110

An employee was on the lift gate of an electric truck. The gate tilted down while it was still 4 feet off the ground; the employee fell to the ground and a cart that had been on the gate landed on the employee's left leg. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate