Incident date: 2015-08-17
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee stepped from a semi-truck onto a curb that was 7" high. His ankle gave out and he fell to the ground on his right hip. He sustained a compression fracture of the L2 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Curbs
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate