Incident date: 2025-07-16
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was unhooking the ramps to an equipment trailer in preparation for unloading equipment. The employee engaged the pneumatic system to lower the ramp. He walked around the back of the trailer and the ramp fell down and pinned him to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his T5 and T7 to T11 vertebrae, three fractured ribs on the left side, a punctured lung, and severe bruising of his left side and hip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
code_source: title: Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate