Incident date: 2023-10-16
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was directing/guiding a loader operator to load bundles of lumber on a flatbed. The employee was standing on the first bundle that had been loaded. The second bundle struck the first bundle, breaking the strap/binding and causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee sustained compression fractures to vertebrae and a fractured right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate