Incident date: 2015-12-31
NAICS industry code: 333413

An employee was severely injured and hospitalized after she fell from the top of a load of industrial fans inside the back of a semi-trailer.  The fan fell onto the employee. The employee suffered a T12-L2 back injury requiring a two-level fusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple back regions
severity: moderate