Incident date: 2018-02-05
NAICS industry code: 425120

An employee was cleaning the inside of a car. As he was exiting the vehicle, his foot became stuck on the door and he fell outside of the vehicle to the concrete, suffering a spinal injury and paralysis that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate