Incident date: 2016-09-30
NAICS industry code: 327420

An employee was emptying trash from a trash hopper into a dumpster. As he was trying to clear cement debris inside the trash hopper (which was lifted up by a forklift), he lost his footing and fell about 6 feet from the dumpster to the concrete floor, injuring his head, clavicle, and ribs. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate