Incident date: 2018-09-25
NAICS industry code: 321912

While trying to straighten straps across a double-stacked, plastic-wrapped unit of lumber on a flatbed trailer, an employee slipped and fell about 10 feet to the paved ground below. During the fall, the employee struck the edge of the trailer bed. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury with brain bleeding, a cracked T4 vertebra, a cut left ear and contusions. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate