Incident date: 2024-10-29
NAICS industry code: 441320

An employee was delivering tires to a customer location. As they were unloading tires they fell off the back of the box truck and struck their neck and back on the concrete ground. The employee sustained vertebrae fractures in their upper back and a portion of the spine, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Straight trucks, box trucks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  thoracic region
severity: moderate