Incident date: 2018-03-09
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was attempting to clear a jam in a trash chute where it opened into a dumpster. The employee climbed into the dumpster and was removing material from around the bottom of the chute when he stepped backwards and fell over the edge of the dumpster, landing on the ground head first. He suffered head trauma, a fractured neck, and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate