Incident date: 2024-12-26
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was standing on the back of his truck unloading water treatment chemicals into a tank at a municipal treatment facility. As the employee was climbing on top of a 330-gallon tote to reach another tote in the rear, he lost his footing and fell backward off the truck to the concrete surface below. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured collarbone, broken ribs, a possible concussion and a brain bleed requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate