Incident date: 2015-12-24
NAICS industry code: 424420

An employee was making a delivery at a restaurant location. Product in back of the semi-trailer shifted and fell against the load-lock. The employee released the load-lock to adjust the product. The product fell onto the employee knocking him to the ground. Product and the load-lock fell onto the employee.  The fall was approximately 30 feet from the back of the semi-trailer.  The employee sustained a fractured right eardrum and bleeding in the brain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate