Incident date: 2016-11-01
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee drove a truck toward the wharf crane. The crane lifted the truck while the employee was still inside. The truck and trailer became unattached, fell to the ground, and bounced onto the concrete surface, jostling the employee around inside the truck. He suffered two bruised vertebrae and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate