Incident date: 2024-12-20
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was using a pallet jack to remove a pallet from the back of a trailer when the strap on the pallet broke. The momentum caused the employee to fall from the trailer to the ground, resulting in an L1 vertebra fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate