Incident date: 2022-10-12
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was unloading items from a truck bed in a stockyard. He stopped and leaned over to tie his boot laces, and his head struck the lower guard rail on a portable set of stairs for an office trailer. He suffered a contusion, lacerations to the face, and a laceration to the right eye and lower eyelid resulting in possible retinal damage. The injuries required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-outdoors
code_nature: title: Cuts and abrasions or bruises
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate