Incident date: 2023-05-09
NAICS industry code: 517311

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to move hand holes out of a delivery truck. One of the straps securing the double stacked hand holes broke, causing the top half of the stack to fall. The employee fell 3-4 feet off the delivery truck lift gate, resulting in a lower back fracture and brain hemorrhaging.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate