Incident date: 2019-12-26
NAICS industry code: 444190

A delivery driver climbed onto a trailer to unhook the ratchet strap holding lumber to the trailer. When the strap released, the employee fell to the ground below and sustained back and neck injuries requiring surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck and back
severity: moderate