Incident date: 2021-08-09
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was weighing linen carts on a scale on a loading dock. She lost her footing while walking backward and fell to the concrete floor, landing on both hands and suffering fractures to both wrists and a lower spine injury. She was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate