Incident date: 2018-11-05
NAICS industry code: 811192

An employee was standing on a stepladder in a car wash tunnel, wiping down a stainless steel structure and air cylinder with a cloth. The passenger-side grill brush came into contact with the employee's ladder as it pulled away from a vehicle, throwing him to the ground. He landed on his left side and suffered lacerations to the spleen. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate