Incident date: 2016-08-04
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was standing/kneeling on top of a flatbed trailer when a forklift operator sat a 500-pound A-frame onto the trailer. The A-frame fell onto the employee, pinning him underneath and breaking five vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Structures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate