Incident date: 2018-09-27
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee was standing on a wooden platform, lifted by a fork truck, while changing rack levels for a lumber company. The platform slid off the truck's forks and the employee fell about 8 feet to the ground, landing on his back. He suffered broken vertebrae and cracked ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate