Incident date: 2018-05-31
NAICS industry code: 486210

An employee climbed the ladder on the back of a water truck to load water into the truck using a fire hose. When the water to the hose was turned on, the employee was startled by the pressure and fell back off of the ladder. The employee fell 7 feet to the ground, suffering a left-side skull fracture, left rib fracture, and L4 vertebra process fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate