Incident date: 2024-05-28
NAICS industry code: 423330

An employee was on the bed of a flatbed commercial truck preparing to offload building materials to a residence. The wind picked up and knocked him off balance. He landed on a concrete driveway sustaining fractures to five areas of his leg/knee. The employee required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Other semi, tractor-trailer
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s) and leg(s)
severity: moderate