Incident date: 2018-02-01
NAICS industry code: 711310

On February 1, 2018, two employees were unloading equipment from a truck. The injured employee was pulling the equipment while a coworker pushed from the other side. The equipment's casters were caught on the edge of the ramp and the equipment tipped over, falling on top of the injured employee, resulting in a back injury that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate