Incident date: 2018-03-06
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee had been operating a sweeper truck and wanted to enter another room. To access the room, he had to move some bagged materials. He climbed to the top of the 7-foot stack of materials, stood up, and fell backwards onto the concrete floor. He fractured his tailbone and was hospitalized.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Coccygeal region
severity: moderate