Incident date: 2017-12-07
NAICS industry code: 484122

An employee was inside a truck trailer pulling a crate by hand using its banding straps when the straps broke. The employee fell approximately 4 feet backward off the trailer's lift gate onto the asphalt ground, sustaining a skull fracture, several broken ribs, brain bleeding and swelling, a fractured sternum, and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate