Incident date: 2023-10-24
NAICS industry code: 484122

An employee was strapping the rear passenger tire of an SUV onto a car hauler in the #1 position (over the hood of the truck). The strap fell down and the employee went to grab it and fell approximately 8 feet to the parking lot surface. The employee sustained fractures to their L1 vertebra and left hip.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate