Incident date: 2016-07-13
NAICS industry code: 452112

The employee was placing material from the back of the truck onto a door that was lying across the forks of a forklift. When he stepped backwards, he stepped onto the edge of the door, lost his balance and fell to the concrete 4 to 5 feet below. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the leg and injured his foot and ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate