Incident date: 2024-01-04
NAICS industry code: 621910

An employee was unloading a metal rolling cart from a truck to the loading dock when they fell off the liftgate to the ground. The employee sustained a right fourth rib fracture and displacement as well as a lung contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Straight trucks, box trucks
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate