Incident date: 2016-03-03
NAICS industry code: 624190

While two employees were walking and carrying a recliner, the employee who was walking backward tripped over a hand truck, became unstable, and fell, striking his head on the truck's lift gate. He suffered a head laceration that required surgery, as well as brain bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate