Incident date: 2016-12-06
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was attempting to empty a sweeper into an open-top dumpster sitting on the dock apron below him. Suddenly, the dumpster began to move and the employee and the sweeper fell off the dock. He injured his lower back and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Street sweeping and cleaning machinery
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate