Incident date: 2017-12-30
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee was serving as an expeditor on a loading dock and checking out a truck driver who had finished his load. The dock door was open and as the truck moved away from the dock, which was approximately 4 feet high, the employee fell off the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury and a possible tailbone injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate