Incident date: 2022-02-08
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee went to stack cases on a dolly. He proceeded to exit the truck walking backward. The truck's lift gate had not been lifted; the employee stepped off the back of the truck and fell to the ground and the stack of product fell on him. The employee sustained a fractured T-12 vertebra.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate