Incident date: 2024-11-05
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee assisted with lifting a sand/salt spreader out of a truck onto a steel stand for work to be done on the sander chain. The employee went to unhook the chain from the excavator bucket. They climbed a fiberglass/steel ladder and then got onto the grate of the sand/salt spreader. The employee fell 8 feet from the grate to the gravel driveway. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their vertebrae, ribs, and pelvis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Tables, desks, work surfaces
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  unspecified
severity: moderate