Incident date: 2018-05-15
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was loading a box truck. He was sitting on a stack of 20 doors (each door was 1 inch thick) that had been wrapped and stacked onto a 4-inch-high pallet and was in the bed of the truck. He then fell off the stack of doors and onto the truck bed (a distance of about 24 inches), fracturing his left femur and left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate