Incident date: 2022-12-19
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was removing a tarp from a 20-foot pile of road salt. He fell approximately 10 feet down the face of the salt pile and sustained a lower back injury at the bottom of the pile.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate