Incident date: 2020-05-15
NAICS industry code: 445110

A maintenance employee was fixing a refrigerator diffuser in a produce cooler that was leaking water. The produce cooler has dock doors for truck deliveries. The employee was squeegeeing the water out of the produce cooler when he slipped on the water and fell off the dock onto the concrete below. He suffered a broken hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate