Incident date: 2022-08-29
NAICS industry code: 115116

Employees were attaching a new liquid valve to an ammonia nurse tank. The wrench slipped and one employee fell off the side of a truck bed, landing on the ground and suffering a head laceration and spinal cord swelling.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate