Incident date: 2024-01-17
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was delivering a skid weighing 399 pounds. The employee was sliding the pallet back a few inches so the customer could use their forklift to offload from the ground when the employee slipped and fell out of the back of the trailer. The employee fell to the ground and sustained a fractured left clavicle, rib fractures, and a left parietal scalp hematoma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Other semi, tractor-trailer
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other upper extremities
severity: moderate