Incident date: 2018-01-20
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee had helped to load a backhoe onto a trailer and was walking toward the front of the trailer to get down. The employee was walking under the outrigger of the backhoe when the chain snapped and knocked the employee off of the trailer onto the ground. The employee suffered a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate