Incident date: 2016-09-19
NAICS industry code: 423110

After repairing a diesel truck, an employee climbed off the truck and stepped on the battery box. The lid on the battery box was unsecured, causing the employee to fall 2 to 3 feet onto the concrete floor below. He also struck the battery box during the fall. He fractured several vertebrae and a left rib.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate