Incident date: 2019-07-27
NAICS industry code: 453310

An employee was assisting another driver in loading a couch onto the company truck. As the employee was stepping into the truck he slipped off the tail gate, fell backwards, and hit his head on the ground. He was hospitalized with contusions to the head, right shoulder and right ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate