Incident date: 2023-03-22
NAICS industry code: 324121

An employee had just loaded a pickup truck onto the deck of a rollback truck. He was standing on the deck, reaching to close the driver door of the pickup, when the pickup's rear door swung open and caused him to lose his balance. He fell 3 feet to the ground below, sustaining fractures to the right tibia and fibula, as well as a fractured left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Tow truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate