Incident date: 2022-10-20
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee had finished unloading materials from a truck onto a five-foot-high loading dock. The truck started to pull away. The employee stepped backward and fell off the loading dock onto the floor. He landed on his left side and was hospitalized with six fractured ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate