Incident date: 2017-03-30
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was observing delivery of equipment from a truck using the power lift gate. The equipment became unbalanced and fell off the lift gate striking the employee and knocking him backwards. The employee sustained a fractured right knee and a tendon injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate