Incident date: 2019-03-28
NAICS industry code: 111421

An employee was on top of an 18-foot flatbed trailer, delivering trees (stacked two high on the trailer) to a nursery. He fell from the trailer to the ground 8 or 9 feet below, suffering broken ribs and a collapsed lung. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate