Incident date: 2017-05-09
NAICS industry code: 423110

An employee was attempting to get into the driver's seat of a pickup truck that had a suspension lift kit installed on it. This kit raised the normal height of the doors above street level. The employee was holding onto the steering wheel to hoist himself up into the drivers' seat when he lost his grip on the steering wheel, fell backwards to the pavement, and landed on his back. He was hospitalized with a back injury and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate