Incident date: 2022-10-24
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was in the operator's basket of a telehandler, driving it off the back of a lowboy trailer. The telehandler slipped off the side of the trailer. The employee was ejected and fell to the ground, suffering several broken lower-back vertebrae and a broken right shoulder. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and back
severity: moderate