Incident date: 2023-11-14
NAICS industry code: 311612

On November 14, 2023, an employee was standing at a loading dock, with one foot on the back of a truck and one foot on the lift gate, when the truck pulled away from the dock. The employee flew 6 feet and fell to the concrete floor, suffering injuries to the head, left eye (broken blood vessels), right thumb (dislocation), and back. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate