Incident date: 2024-10-11
NAICS industry code: 424720

A truck driver was delivering propane. While he was climbing down from the truck cabin, he fell backward and landed on the concrete ground. The employee's vertebra was pushed into his spine, causing paralysis from the shoulder down.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Tanker trucks
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate