Incident date: 2018-05-01
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee climbed on the back of a pickup truck bed after he finished picking up signs off the side of the road. The driver was driving the pickup truck along the interstate shoulder going eastbound toward the jobsite when the employee fell off the vehicle, striking his head on the ground and requiring hospitalization. He was wearing a hard hat when he fell.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate