Incident date: 2024-06-24
NAICS industry code: 423730

While unloading a delivery truck, an employee was manually repositioning a 155-pound air conditioner attached to a pallet with plastic straps. The straps broke and the employee fell approximately 4 feet from the truck to the ground, resulting in a fractured left ankle and left elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Straight trucks, box trucks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate