Incident date: 2019-02-08
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee opened the right door of a 53-foot trailer loaded with plastic bulkheads and empty 1/6 barrels. As the employee started to open the door, the weight from the shifted cargo pushed the door open causing the employee to fall approximately four feet to the ground. Some of the cargo fell on top of him as well. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured left hip and bruising to his left elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate