Incident date: 2017-10-27
NAICS industry code: 512199

An employee was manually lowering a lift gate on a 5th wheel trailer. Other members of the team removed a camera arm from the trailer. The injured employee then bent down to remove wheel chocks and the camera arm struck him on the head resulting in a compression injury to the upper neck (C2-C5).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Photographic equipment, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate