Incident date: 2017-02-10
NAICS industry code: 491110

A transportation driver was attempting to load mail cages onto a trailer and placed them on a lift platform without securing them. When he raised the lift, a cage rolled off and struck the injured employee, who suffered chipped vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Cages, cage racks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate