Incident date: 2018-06-26
NAICS industry code: 237120

While disconnecting a strap at the back of a flatbed truck trailer, an employee fell from the side of the truck, landing on wood mats about 5 feet below. The employee suffered a broken nose, broken ribs, broken teeth, fractured sinus cavity, fractured wrist, and facial lacerations. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate