Incident date: 2020-05-16
NAICS industry code: 111211

An employee was tasked with removing sweet potato plants from a trailer to be planted in the field. While the employee was climbing on the side of the parked trailer, the top side bracing bar of the trailer came off and the employee fell approximately 1 foot to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured back.

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate