Incident date: 2024-07-16
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was standing in the bed of a utility truck and was loading a PVC pipe onto a rack in the back of the truck. The employee was pulling the PVC pipe when a strap came loose and he fell backward to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate