Incident date: 2015-11-04
NAICS industry code: 236220

The employee was sitting at the edge of a large commercial dumpster with his feet inside of the receptacle.  The employee was attempting to reach for a piece of plywood, lost his balance, and fell backward, approximately 8 feet to the dirt ground below. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate