Incident date: 2025-07-28
NAICS industry code: 481111

An employee was offloading a new boom lift from a transporter truck. As the boom lift s rear wheels reached the tail lift of the truck, the tail lift broke, causing the boom lift to fall. As a result of the sudden drop, the employee was lifted into the air, striking several objects. The employee was hospitalized due to a fractured back and a left leg injury that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate