Incident date: 2024-12-19
NAICS industry code: 212321

A FESCO employee was on top of a trailer assisting a forklift operator with placing equipment onto the semi-truck trailer. While on top of the trailer, the employee stepped backward and fell off the trailer to the ground, landing on his back. The employee was hospitalized for a fracture of their C5 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Other semi, tractor-trailer
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate