Incident date: 2018-11-07
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee was stepping out onto a 12-foot-wide, 6-foot-deep wood platform raised to a third-story window opening with a telescoping boom forklift. The platform flipped off the side of the forks and the employee fell about 24 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a fractured neck vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate